Cabra (Poetry)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Published: September 10, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780889952249
Subjects: Poetry; American - General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General; General; Brazil
Description: "Over the space of centuries, the exploration and settlement of Brazil inspired a vast body of stories that sought to define the country. Its people, landscapes and history became the focus of an intense gaze that transformed Brazil into a place of myth, a changeling world of mingled beauty and brutality. Cabra is an exploration of the imagination of Brazil.

It is a mapping of the topography of myth itself, a poetic investigation of the interplay between the stories of history and the silence of the dispossessed. Perhaps most of all, it is a recognition of how, in writing or speaking about a place, we unavoidably transfigure it, and in that transformation, we discover ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.