Brazil has a nearly two-hundred-year-old poetic history, during which various poets have fought to define Brazilian identity, criticize the injustices of capitalism, and catalog “the joys and miseries of being young in a military dictatorship.”
Now that Brazil has become more stable, many poets want “simply to write good poetry. They actually want their work to be read and discussed by the reading public.”
Does that make them a bunch of cowardly sellouts? Paulo Henriques Britto looks at the evidence for the LA Review of Books.
