brazilian poet Archives • Diaspora Cultural

Day D – Drummond Day

Posted on October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 by Marluce Lima

31
Oct

Today, the last day of October, it would be the 118th birthday of Carlos Drummond de Andrade and he made himself eternal through his poetry. In 2011, the Moreira Salles Institute created in Brazil, the Day D – Drummond Day, to celebrate the life of one of our greatest poets, just as the Irish celebrate the life of writer James Joyce every year on June 16 with Bloomsday. By the way, if you look at some pictures of Drummond, you might find similarities in both writers: their elegance, the hat, glasses, moustache, their walks into eternity.

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Art, Bilingual Podcast, Podcast

“Inquietude”

Posted on July 13, 2020July 15, 2020 by Marluce Lima

13
Jul

In this edition of our Diaspora podcast, we chat with Alex Simiema. Alex is from Goias, in Brazil, he lived in Natal, Brasília, and also in California, London, France, residing today in Lisbon, circulating around Austria. A nomad? An explorer? Or is this would be a certain inquietude of an artist’s soul?

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Literature, Poetry

Hilda Hilst

Posted on July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 by Marluce Lima

07
Jul

Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) was a Brazilian poet, playwright, and fiction writer. She was strongly influenced by James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and this influence appears in themes and techniques that are recurrent in their work such as the flow of consciousness and fractured reality.

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Poetry

Love’s a fire that burns out of sight

Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 by Marluce Lima

04
May

Love’s a fire that burns out of a sight;
It’s a wound, yet a painless torment;
It’s a discontent sense of contentment;
It’s a pang, yet unbearably slight.

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Poetry

Hand in hand

Posted on April 4, 2020April 5, 2020 by Marluce Lima

04
Apr

I won’t be the singer of some woman, some tale,/ I won’t evoke the sights at dusk, the scene outside the window,/ I won’t distribute drugs or suicide letters,/

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Poetry

Sonnet of Fidelity

Posted on February 14, 2020April 4, 2020 by Marluce Lima

14
Feb

Above all, to my love I’ll be attentive
First and always, with care and so much
That even when facing the greatest enchantment
By love be more enchanted my thoughts

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Bilingual Podcast, Podcast

“The poet’s song”

Posted on February 8, 2020June 9, 2020 by Marluce Lima

08
Feb

Rafael Mendes is a poet. He came to live in Dublin in 2016. The following year he participated in the collection “32kg: An Anthology Brazil-Ireland” by Editora Urutau and published with the same publisher his first collection “an essay on beauty and chaos”, launched in Brazil and Europe. His poems have been published in magazines, radio, and soirees in Ireland.
In this conversation, we talk about art, chaos, beauty, love, and longing – a word full of meaning. We talked about memories – one of the raw materials of a poem – about languages and Rafael’s experience in translations for the Diaspora magazine.

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Marluce Lima

A hummingbird in Dublin

Posted on October 26, 2019June 6, 2020 by Marluce Lima

26
Oct

“Sometimes I have symptoms of reality. I make training field of my dreams and ask myself, “Why do I wake up with sand in my eyes?” Maybe it is a race against time. “ She was asked on the street if she is an actress. Maybe she had some appearances on the stage, or maybe […]

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