Böcker av Manoel de Barros

Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Manoel de Barros is one of the most original Brazilian poets of all times. Following Oswald de Andrade's example of "seeing with free eyes," his his poetry creates surprises from the trivial of words and the world, taking us to new spaces of language. So too is his speech presented here, in an original selection of his interviews.