Poetry
Cântico de Ferro
Not translated into English
Yolanda Morazzo · 1976
Synopsis
Cântico de Ferro (Song of Iron): poems written from 1960 to 1966 at Cambambe, in Angola, where the author was then living, and published under the subtitle “poetry of intervention”. They denounce colonialism, the violence done to the colonised and the exploitation of workers, in a colony then at war.
Context
The collection appeared in 1976 at Amadora, from Edições Petra, a year after the independence of Cape Verde; according to Moser and Ferreira, the author is the second Cape Verdean woman to publish a book. It forms the second of the four parts of her Poesia completa, published in Lisbon in 2006 with a preface by Elsa Rodrigues dos Santos, who sees in it a defence of the independence of dominated peoples. Poems by the author appear in several anthologies, among them No reino de Caliban in 1975, and one of them, Barcos, appeared in English in 1989 in A Horse of White Clouds.
Who it is for
For reading a Cape Verdean poetry of struggle, written at the time of the colonial wars, without a French translation.
Prizes and reception
Norma Sueli Rosa Lima describes a poetry of denunciation, direct, marked by orality and by exclamation marks.
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