Morte e vida Severina

poem by Melo Neto

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In João Cabral de Melo Neto
…Neto gained widespread popularity with Morte e vida Severina (1955; “Death and Life of a Severino”), a dramatic poem that made use of literatura de cordel, a popular narrative in verse. It was published in Duas águas, one of his more than 30 books of poetry. He was elected to…
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