Corola

• As one of the exponents of 1990s poetry in Brazil, she has explored, as in Corola, winner of the Prêmio Jabuti, flowers in all their minutiae, including their ability to materialize metalinguistically within the poetic craft.

• This study seeks to measure the significance of Claudia Roquette-Pinto's Corola (2000) within contemporary poetry. Examining the figurations and syntactic ambiguities of its simulated lyricism, it identifies the distinctiveness of the female voice that speaks throughout the poems from within the enclosure of a garden.

• Claudia Roquette-Pinto's work Corola (2000) presents a consistent poetic project stemming from the use of expressive metalinguistic devices and the cohesive structure of the volume. The recourse to intratextuality fosters unity and metalinguistic reflections across the 48 poems that comprise the work. Dialogue with literary tradition occurs alongside the speakers' awareness that the poetry of Corola is interval-based and fissile.

• The impression, as in the opening poem of the book "Corola," is one of astonishment before a displaced natural world, and vertigo propelled by the abrupt line breaks: "All day pursuing an idea: / dazed fireflies against the web / of speculations, and not a single / blossoming, not even / an incipient bud / framed by the window / brings focus to the hypothetical garden."

• A poetry experienced as the only and ultimate realm of freedom possible for a generation that learned to love under the shadow of AIDS, panic, violence, and the brutal reality of the marginalized. A potent, courageous, astonishingly beautiful text of mature craftsmanship, defining Claudia Roquette-Pinto beyond any doubt as one of contemporary poetry's preeminent voices.

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