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Book · 2018
Nuvens
Hilda Machado registered the manuscript for Nuvens with Brazil's National Library in 1997, but left it unpublished when she died in 2007. During her lifetime, the filmmaker and cinema professor had published only two poems. Her sister Angela Machado and writer Ricardo Domeneck recovered the manuscript, which Editora 34 published in 2018. The poems treat domestic routines, film history, and memory with spare phrasing and dry humor. The volume won the Prêmio Jabuti for poetry in 2019.
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This posthumous volume brings the poetry of Hilda Machado to light, but it also remedies a measure of the literary injustices imposed on so many other poets who, for one reason or another, remained anonymous during their lifetimes.
André de Oliveira on El País Brasil The uniqueness of her poetry, however, lies precisely in the vertical effect of its perspective. Hesitant between sky and ground, Nuvens is a book of poetry, but it is also a treatise on the suspension and endless falling of souls. Or of desire.
Rafael Zacca on Jornal Rascunho The opening poem already exhibits a crucial hallmark of the book: the ability to advance through drastic juxtapositions. In it, a room becomes a space balanced between two dimensions, one that is scenic background, the other text. Not without irony, the physical aspects of objects blend with textual backstages. It is as if in Hilda's poetry there were a level crossing that brings distinct planes together.
Leonardo Gandolfi on Folha de S.Paulo
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