{"product_id":"dirty-poem-by-ferreira-gullar-9780811223959","title":"Dirty Poem","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, \u003ci\u003eDirty Poem\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic poem that, amid life events, traces the author's political and artistic evolution. It is, by most accounts, the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScholar and critic Otto Maria Carpeaux wrote: \"\u003ci\u003eDirty Poem\u003c\/i\u003e deserves to be called 'National Poem' because it embodies all of the experiences, victories, defeats, and hopes in the life of the Brazilian citizen.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a hypnotic work that draws on the poet's memory of adolescence in the seaside city of São Luís do Maranhão during World War II and deals openly with the \"dirty\" shamefulness of a socio-economic system that abuses its citizens with poverty, sexism, greed, and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470432485612,"sku":"9780811223959","price":20.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811223959-dirty-poem.jpg?v=1775219345","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dirty-poem-by-ferreira-gullar-9780811223959","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}