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Theme is bossa nova and contemporary music of Brazil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The booklet consists of the complete poem Un Coup de Des in French; its translation into Portuguese appears in the book. This is the first edition; the second edition appeared in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazzon.com: This is the first full-scale English translation of one of Brazil's-and the world's-most influential avant-garde literary voices. A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group Noigandres, Haroldo de Campos has made a unique and substantial contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing, particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio Paz, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, can be observed unfolding here, first in poetry selections ranging from de Campos' early work before concretism through his most recent production; then in theoretical...