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25 of March of 2024
Livraria Lello suggests
This March, the Most Beautiful Bookshop in the World suggests two books to praise Women and celebrate Poetry! "Contos, Sonhos e Imaginações" by Agustina Bessa-Luís, one of the most important and unusual voices in Portuguese Literature, where her female characters don't hesitate to break conventions, and "A Invenção do Canto e Outros Versos" by Carlos Tê, who has a vast repertoire of poem-lyrics for songs.
Tales, Dreams and Imaginations, Agustina Bessa-Luís
The images of her childhood determine her entire relationship with the works of her life. Agustina joins her two hands, interlaces her fingers, forms a shell, and traps time in the void - her laboratory, where she recovers the past, because without it the present doesn't exist, and there she keeps the secret of immortality. Sometimes it happens, she finds herself dreaming with her eyes fixed on the blue veins of her hands, her fingers disconnect, a fissure opens up, and Agustina enters another time, that of existence in the dream, in the myth, in the short story.
The Invention of Song and Other Verses, Carlos Tê
Songs are as old as controversy: are they lyrics or are they poems? Imprensa Nacional, realizing the importance of highlighting the work of writers for songs - who then interpret them or not - has created this series in the Plural collection, Letra Poema, because it believes that, whether they are one thing or the other, they have always been both. A lyric is a poem and a poem is a lyric. And what we're trying to do here is repair that flaw, giving the deserved spotlight to those who make us sing their words.
The Invention of Singing and Other Verses, Carlos Tê
The song is as old as the controversy: are they lyrics or are they poems? Imprensa Nacional, realizing the importance of highlighting the work of writers for songs - who then interpret them or not - has created this series in the Plural collection, Letra Poema, because it believes that, being one thing or the other, they have always been both. A lyric is a poem and a poem is a lyric. And what we're trying to do here is repair that flaw, giving the deserved spotlight to those who make us sing their words.
Tales, Dreams and Imaginations, Agustina Bessa-Luís
The images of her childhood determine her entire relationship with the works of her life. Agustina joins her two hands, interlaces her fingers, forms a shell, and traps time in the void - her laboratory, where she recovers the past, because without it the present doesn't exist, and there she keeps the secret of immortality. Sometimes it happens, she finds herself dreaming with her eyes fixed on the blue veins of her hands, her fingers disconnect, a fissure opens up, and Agustina enters another time, that of existence in the dream, in the myth, in the short story.
The Invention of Song and Other Verses, Carlos Tê
Songs are as old as controversy: are they lyrics or are they poems? Imprensa Nacional, realizing the importance of highlighting the work of writers for songs - who then interpret them or not - has created this series in the Plural collection, Letra Poema, because it believes that, whether they are one thing or the other, they have always been both. A lyric is a poem and a poem is a lyric. And what we're trying to do here is repair that flaw, giving the deserved spotlight to those who make us sing their words.
The Invention of Singing and Other Verses, Carlos Tê
The song is as old as the controversy: are they lyrics or are they poems? Imprensa Nacional, realizing the importance of highlighting the work of writers for songs - who then interpret them or not - has created this series in the Plural collection, Letra Poema, because it believes that, being one thing or the other, they have always been both. A lyric is a poem and a poem is a lyric. And what we're trying to do here is repair that flaw, giving the deserved spotlight to those who make us sing their words.
.png "Livraria Lello suggests… \"Selected Poems\", by Jorge Luís Borges, and \"Pão com Fiambre\", by Charles Bukowski")