The poems in Mundo, the most recent book by Ana Luísa Amaral, make the everyday universal and take us into the smallest and most humble aspects of this Earth: a bee, a centipede, a cigarette, a needle, a horse... And in that tiny universe, a cloak of magic covers everything: tables talk, insects have an inner life as complex as humans, classic books talk to each other, universal history is just a vanishing cloud. But in that magical world – ours – there are also injustices and pain, and Amaral is not indifferent to it. She speaks, with delicacy and great respect, of the dispossessed, of modern slavery, of discrimination based on our skin color, of our indifference to the misery that destroys us all. With the strength of someone who knows that words have the power to create and modify the world, the poems in this book plant in us, with each syllable, the seed of an indestructible fores...read more
