An unprecedented collection of poems by the great Adalgisa Nery, a writer who returns to the spotlight of Brazilian poetry, almost 50 years after the publication of her last book.
"The most notable poetic event was the revelation of yet another great female voice in the person of Mrs. Adalgisa Nery." This is how Manuel Bandeira praised Adalgisa Nery's first book, "Poems ," published in 1937. A woman with a magnetic personality, she enchanted all who knew her, especially with her sensitivity. In her 36-year career, she published seven books of poems, two novels, a collection of short stories, another of chronicles, and four translations. Her extensive literary activity is matched only by her public life: Adalgisa Nery circulated in important artistic circles, was friends with names such as Frida Kahlo and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and was a prominent politician and one of the first women in Brazil to be elected state representative.
Her poetic output reveals a woman preoccupied with the great questions of the spirit: love, abandonment, death, desire. Adalgisa's aesthetic is embedded in the conflict between soul and matter, the poet acting as an intermediary between God and humanity, as Murilo Mendes observed.
This " From End to Beginning" is a complete and unprecedented collection, edited by Ramon Nunes Mello, a scholar of the poet, and marks Adalgisa Nery's return to the prominent place she should never have left. Here, the writer once again reveals the power of someone who felt poetry firsthand and who, in the words of contemporary poet Bruna Beber, knew "above all how to live the improvisation of cycles" and "to unite with tragedy and eros."
"I think we all loved her, even without knowing it was love. We loved her as a living work of art." - Carlos Drummond de Andrade
“The most notable poetic event […] was the revelation of yet another great female voice in the person of Mrs. Adalgisa Nery.” – Manuel Bandeira
“Adalgisa reveals in her poems a serious and sad sensuality, that of those dissatisfied with earthly love.” – Murilo Mendes
“She is not only femininely intense, but also adalgistically intense in the way she is a poet.” – Gilberto Freye
"Whoever reads this book will become more discerning and will broaden their knowledge, will be eager to devour it, and will see that they are naked and will embark on a spiritual adventure. There is, therefore, the sincerity of primitive nudity in these pages of Adalgisa." – Jorge de Lima, on Poems
“There are roots in the formation of the poet Adalgisa Nery that go deep into the soul, to the innermost depths of things.” – José Lins do Rego
