Title: Terraplenagem
Description: This was my very first literary effort to be published. "Terraplenagem" is a book of poems and what I then called "exercises" , meaning poems which could still be made better in time. Of note are the absolutely wonderful and classic illustrations by Jayme Cortez, a top-notch graphic artist overall but also a cartoon pioneer in the Brazilian scene at the time. A sequel to this book, published years later, was entitled "Liquidacao", and was my last Portuguese-language poetry/short-stories offering. I have since become a bilingual lyricist, working with various jazz/MPB composers, including Sadao Watanabe, Sergio Augusto and Cesar Camargo Mariano.