Boitempo I: Old Boy

Name: Boitempo I: Old Boy
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Autor: Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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First volume of the collection of Drummond's memorial poems, Boitempo I: Menino antigo retorno em novo projeto, with an afterword by Carlos Bracher.

Originally published by Drummond in three volumes — in 1968, 1973 and 1979 —, the Boitempo series seems to endorse, not without irony, two of his simplest verses: “Living is longing / in advance.” When composing it, the poet admitted that he was returning to being a child in Itabira, and “with voluptuousness,” although an unnamed voice had always urged him to silence such “silly boyish memories.”

He didn't keep quiet. When revisiting the past, he claimed he was merely writing about his present. In truth, he went further. Recalling his childhood impressions in "mundominas," he also recorded part of the biography of a Brazil with a slave-owning and predatory essence. The "agritortura," the mining, the commerce—all of it fascinated young Carlos, attentive to the desires of what he perhaps already identified as "privilege" and "property"—indeed, Drummond gives these titles to two poems collected here.

Carlos flourished under the influence of the archaic laws that still governed, in the early 20th century, the relationships between society and nature, faith and morality, land and wealth, farm and family. He grew up admiring his powerful colonel grandfather; his cattle rancher father, who taught his son "fear and to laugh at fear"; his mother, so much "easier to deceive"; and his brothers, living and dead, presences "to be deciphered later."

“Boitempo”, thus, was the perfect amalgam he found to define his hybrid, rural and, in a certain way, aristocratic origin, since the ox, for him, was a fundamental magical animal, always ruminating on the mysteries that nourished him: “the cornmeal of life” ground by time, as well as his first letters and even the suspicion that love itself would be, perhaps, “a spectacle / offered to the cows / that do not look and graze”.

The new editions of Carlos Drummond de Andrade's work feature texts edited by experts, with unprecedented access to the collection of annotated copies and manuscripts he left behind. In Boitempo I , readers will find an afterword by painter, sculptor, and writer Carlos Bracher; selected bibliographies by and about Drummond; and the section titled "At the Time of Release," a chronology of the three years immediately before and after the book's first publication.

Complete bibliographies, a chronology of the poet's life and work, and variations in the process of fixing the texts are available via the QR code located on the back cover of this volume.

ISBN	978-655-587-660-4
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Altura	205 mm
Largura	135 mm
Profundidade	20 mm
Lançamento	27/03/2023
Páginas	366

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade nasceu em Itabira, Minas Gerais, em 1902. Foi poeta, cronista e contista, firmando-se como um dos grandes nomes da literatura brasileira do século XX. Entre outros clássicos, é autor de Alguma poesia, Brejo das almas, Sentimento do mundo, José & Novos poemas, A rosa do povo, Claro enigma, Fazendeiro do ar e Fala, amendoeira. Faleceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1987, aos 84 anos.