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João Cabral de Melo Neto
João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920–99), career diplomat originally from the state of Pernambuco, was widely considered to be Brazil's greatest late twentieth-century poet. He debuted under the neo-Parnassian sign of the Generation of 1945 but soon distinguished himself as a strong individual voice interested in abstract metapoetics and material realities alike. His preference for rigorous construction earned him the nickname “poet-engineer.” His most popular work is Morte e vida severina (1955), a Christmas play with multiple layers of literary and historical meaning (see Charles A. Perrone's “Backlands Bards” in Articles section).
The selections below are from a very productive period of the 1960s. “A educação pela pedra” appeared in translation as the lead poem of Education by Stone (Archipelago Books, 2005), 168–69. “O urubu mobilizado” and “O sertanejo falando” appeared in translation in An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan University Press, 1972), 160–63.