Body

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Autor: Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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Exposing the contradictions of the body in a solemn and intense way, Corpo is part of Drummond's later publications and returns in a new project, with an afterword by Eliane Robert Moraes.

“My body is not my body, / it is the illusion of another being.” In the opening verses of this book, published in 1984, Drummond proposes a radical rupture: the desire to distance himself from the shell of himself, a body that erases the memory of his mind, that “attacks, wounds and condemns” him, inventing pain to, among other tricks, “make it internal, / part of my Id.”

From this already old and deprived body, his "jailer," Drummond moves on to others, far less exclusive. The body that strips itself bare with pleasure, becoming the "last veil of the soul." The female body, or its pictorial representation, perceived not only as line, curve, and volume, but also as sign and melody. The bodies at rest and the absent, the "walking dead" who, despite being averse to their essential condition as flesh, already see themselves as fertile "manure soil"—the body made garden.

"Why are we born to love, if we are going to die? / Why die, if we love?" This is what Drummond asks himself, constantly oscillating between the materiality and metaphysics of the bodies he investigates. He begins to speak of time, of "last year's bread" that the body chews but cannot eliminate; of the sky and the ambiguous grandeur of celestial bodies; of the shameful inequality of our social body. "One day," the poet predicts, "everything will come crashing down," and "the classes will unite amidst the rubble."

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 Corpo , readers will find an afterword by literary critic and USP researcher Eliane Robert Moraes; selected bibliographies by and about Drummond; and the section titled "At the time of the 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.