Air farmer

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Autor: Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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An emblematic work from Drummond's adult phase, Fazendeiro do ar returns in a new project, with an afterword by Mariana Ianelli.

Fazendeiro do ar , published in 1954, followed Claro enigma —one of Drummond's and Brazilian poetry's most important works—and became equally emblematic of the poet's mature phase. Throughout just over twenty poems, Drummond never repeats "formulas" and masterfully alternates poetic devices: he ranges from sonnet to prose poem, passing through free verse.

Death and the ephemerality of life are themes that permeate the entire work, composing a breathtaking sequence of highly inspired poems, which begins with “The Distribution of Time” (“One minute, one minute of hope, / and then everything ends.”) and continues with two texts in homage to the poets Américo Facó and Jorge de Lima, both of whom died in 1953.

The end of the life cycle is also present in “Cemitérios,” a series of very disconcerting short poems, with anthological lines: “On the left side I carry my dead. / That’s why I walk a little to the side.” “Death of Neco Andrade” is another find, perhaps the most eccentric text of the set, a prose poem with touches of the Western, complete with a surprising twist at the end.

The book also brings up other recurring themes in Drummond's work, such as love, revealed in the thought-provoking "The Room in Disorder," in which the poet says: "On the dangerous curve of fifty / I slipped into this love." And the treatise on the passage of time that he constructs in "Eternal": "eternal is everything that lives for a fraction of a second / but with such intensity that it petrifies and no force can rescue it."

Filled with twilight imagery, Fazendeiro do ar is a factory of powerful poetic fragments, where Drummond continues his successful mission of making sense of the world's machine.

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 Fazendeiro do Ar , readers will find: the afterword, written by Mariana Ianelli, poet, essayist, columnist, and literary critic; 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.