{"product_id":"9780811224789","title":"Dirty Poem (Vol. 18) (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsidered the greatest long poem in 20th century Brazilian poetry, Ferreira's Gullar's \u003cem\u003eDirty Poem\u003c\/em\u003e was written as a response to the Brazilian dictatorship that put him in exile and murdered thousands. \u003c\/p\u003e Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, \u003cem\u003eDirty Poem\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author’s political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature. Scholar and critic Otto Maria Carpeaux wrote: “\u003cem\u003eDirty Poem\u003c\/em\u003e deserves to be called ‘National Poem’ because it embodies all of the experiences, victories, defeats, and hopes in the life of the Brazilian citizen.” It is a hypnotic work that draws on the poet’s memory of adolescence in the seaside city of Sao Luís do Maranhao during World War II and deals openly with the “dirty” shamefulness of a socio-economic system that abuses its citizens with poverty, sexism, greed, and fear.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129369608432,"sku":"9780811224789","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811224789_p0.jpg?v=1763741071","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811224789","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}