Adélia Prado Box

Four great works by award-winning Adélia Prado, one of the greatest Brazilian poets of modern times, brought together in this luxury box set – with a unique format, new covers printed on special paper – which also includes a booklet with additional, never-before-seen and exclusive content.

Adélia Prado's poetry is a landmark in Brazilian literature. This box set brings together the four most defining books in her poetic career: Bagagem (Baggage ), O coração Disparado (The Displaced Heart), A faca no peito (The Knife in the Chest) , and Oráculos de Maio (May Oracles ). It also contains a booklet with photos and a previously unpublished text about Adélia's work, written by actress and poet Elisa Lucinda.

Luggage (152 pages)

Adélia Prado's first book, published in 1976, Bagagem showcases the talent that would make her one of the most acclaimed poets in Brazilian literature. The unmistakable style of her poems not only reflects the slow maturation of a work four decades in the making; it reveals a poet gifted with self-criticism, slowly cultivated, and willing to take risks.

“Adélia is lyrical, biblical, existential, she writes poetry as she has for a long time: she is under the law, not of men, but of God.” - Carlos Drummond de Andrade

"Adélia is a poet of written language. But writing dictated by the rhythms of the voice, long cultivated in liturgy, in small-town conversation, in family memories, in popular songs, and in the recitation of poems. Her poetic conception converges on the verb." - Augusto Massi

The racing heart (128 pages)

Winner of the Jabuti Prize in 1978, *O coração disparado* established the author as one of the great voices of Brazilian poetry. In it, Adélia delves into one of the themes that would become a hallmark of her work: religiosity.

"Religious experience is a poetic experience. Poetry points to the same place where faith takes us. They are experiences of a common nature. So much so that the language is the same. Mythical texts are paradoxes, they speak in metaphors, because they speak of the unspeakable. Poetry is the same thing," explains Adélia.

The knife in the chest (88 pages)

First published in 1988, "A faca no peito" (The Knife in the Chest) is another essential work of Brazilian poetry. The book centers on Jonathan, a character who refers to both God and the male sex and religious belief. He combines promise and escape, fulfillment and desire, the eternal quest.

"There's only one way to tell someone: 'I won't forget you.' The cello string vibrates on its own under an invisible bow, and sins disappear like caught rats. My heart is astonishing because it beats and has blood in it, and one day it will stop and become a pathetic drum of words in my ear: 'I won't forget you.' Spots of light on the wall, a small vase with three plastic roses. Everything in the world is perfect, and death is love."

May Oracles (96 pages)

In "Oráculos de Maio ," Adélia Prado emphasizes everyday life and oral texts, paying homage to various religious figures, both sacred and profane. According to Elisa Lucinda, "her most revolutionary poetic conception is the seemingly blasphemous concept, but founded on the most genuine love—the awareness that the erotic does not separate us from God and that being in contact with him is, above all, a sensory experience."