Poetry
Amar sobre o Índico
Not translated into English
Eduardo White · 1984
Synopsis
Amar sobre o Índico (Loving over the Indian Ocean): the author's first collection, conceived as an amorous and erotic voyage over the Indian Ocean. A man and a woman unite and move away by sea from a land where the civil war remains present, towards peace and the fullness of love. The sea, water and the vocabulary of navigation, down to the image of the mast, carry an eroticism that becomes a way of inhabiting the world.
Context
The collection appeared in 1984 in Maputo, from the publishing house of the Association of Mozambican Writers, the year the review Charrua was born. G. Spinuzza places it, with the first books of Luís Carlos Patraquim, at the turning point that moved Mozambican poetry away from the poetry of struggle. Cited by him, Jessica Falconi sees in it national heroism turned into a heroism of love, and an opening towards the Indian Ocean. The collection is studied in the reviews Abriu and Revista do GEL.
Who it is for
For reading, in Portuguese, the amorous and maritime poetry that opens the work of the poet Eduardo White.
Prizes and reception
C. de T. P. C. Machado judges this book political precisely because it never speaks openly of politics.
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