{"product_id":"terra-de-santa-cruz","title":"Land of Santa Cruz","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 1981, \u003cem\u003eTerra de Santa Cruz\u003c\/em\u003e , by Adélia Prado, returns with a new cover to celebrate the great figure of current Brazilian poetry, winner of the Camões and Machado de Assis prizes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe publication of \u003cem\u003eTerra de Santa Cruz\u003c\/em\u003e in 1981 solidified Adélia Prado as one of the most original voices in Brazilian poetry in the second half of the 20th century. After her stunning debut with the now classic \u003cem\u003eBagagem\u003c\/em\u003e (1976) and the acclaim of \u003cem\u003eO coração disparado\u003c\/em\u003e (1978), winner of the Jabuti Prize, the author from Minas Gerais completed what critic Augusto Massi defined as the “holy trinity of her poetic style.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Of the three parts that make up the work – “Territory”, “Catechesis” and “Sagration” –, the last two are dedicated to poems that dialogue intensely with religiosity, but also reaffirm the poet’s faith in everyday life, in the people and in the simple things in life, as in “The Narrow Door”: “God, have compassion on this city \/ and on me who walked its streets \/ secretly telling myself: \/ I am the poet of these people.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWith the country still under dictatorship, the poet is incisive when she states in the poem \"Terra de Santa Cruz\" that \"The torturers all go mad\" and \"the wicked regimes rot.\" In \"Marriage,\" one of the book's most beautiful poems, love, desire, and companionship are represented in a platter of fish: \"There are women who say: \/ My husband, if he wants to fish, let him fish, \/ but let him clean the fish. \/ Not me. At any hour of the night I get up, \/ I help scale, open, cut, and salt. \/ It's so good, just us alone in the kitchen, \/ every now and then our elbows bump.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe work is replete with \"scenes from private life,\" in which the poems unfold through narrative threads and powerful poetic images, as in \"Mobiles\" and \"Miserere\" (a poem that would become the title of a book by the writer three decades later). A place where poetry intimately intersects with life, \u003cem\u003eTerra de Santa Cruz\u003c\/em\u003e was also a fundamental book in establishing the poetic path that Adélia Prado would brilliantly follow in the following decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Now, in time to celebrate the Camões and Machado de Assis awards (ABL), won by the author in 2024, \u003cem\u003eTerra de Santa Cruz\u003c\/em\u003e returns to readers with a new cover, signed by the award-winning designer Leonardo Iaccarino, on the canvas \u003cem\u003eUma aventura obstinada\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), by the visual artist Manoela Monteiro.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159418880252,"sku":"9788501922779","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/99053bc8bba8975086782d863c2d7b79.jpg?v=1778875327","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/terra-de-santa-cruz","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}