Entrevista sobre cordel e poesia contemporânea
O site Passeiweb publicou uma entrevista comigo, feita por Leonardo Campos, estudante de Letras Vernáculas com Habilitação em Inglês na UFBA. Um trecho: "A convergência (...) de (...) linguagens é um caminho que tanto poetas de cordel quanto poetas pós-construtivistas brasileiros contemporâneos estão tomando, apropriando-se de novas ferramentas (como o PDF, o MP3 e o Youtube) para veicular literatura". Para ler a íntegra da entrevista clique na logo do Passeiweb, aí ao lado.
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"The single most important document in New York City's development is a map printed in 1811 called the Randel Survey of The Commissioneers' Plan. It unveiled a plain to increase the size of the city by 11.400 acres and 'provide space for a greater population than is collected on this side of China.' (...) In 1811, New York was still a 'small but promissing capital which', as characterized by Henry James in Washington Square, 'clustered about the Battery and overlooked the Bay, and of which the uppermost boundary was indicated by the grassy waysides of Canal Street.' North of Canal loomed a rugged wilderness broken only by an occasional farm or small community, such as the village of Greenwich (now Greenwich Village). (...) In May or June 1808, Randel started the project which would occupy him off and on for thirteen years. (...) Randal brought the topographical maps he was drafting of various sections of the island to his regular meetings with the commissioneers. The question of an street plan occupied much of their attention at these meetings: 'whether they should confine themselves to rectilinear and rectangular streets, or whether they should adopt some of these supposed improvements, by circles, ovals, and stars.' The gridiron was then the most popular street pattern and had already been employed in such cities as Philadelphia, Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans. 'This is a plan oh which Americans are very fond, observed a visitor from Europe. 'All the modern built towns are on this principle.' It certainly had the advantage of being simple to lay out and easy for building construction. When the commissioneers decided on the gridiron for Manhattan, they 'could not bear in mind that a city is to be composed principally of the habitations of men, and that strait sided and right angles houses are the most cheap to build, and the most convenient to live in'. Their plan consisted of a dozen north-south avenues each 100 feet wide, and at intervals of 200 feet were 155 numbered streets 60 feet wide. (...) The natural geography of the island was originally a factor in devising a street system, but there is little evidence in the eight miles of numbered paralell and perpendicular streets and avenues delineated on Randel's map that the topography of the island was even a consideration. (...) In the early nineteenth century, Manhattan was still an island of hills (...) Once the map and plan were approved, the Common Council required elevations taken from each street, and at each intersection a marker placed where the future streets would be constructed. Between 1811 and 1821, Randel and his determined crew placed a three-foot nine-inch-long white marble marker engraved with the street's number at each intersection. Where rocks blocked the way, half-foot iron bolts were affixed to them. In total, 1549 markers and 98 bolts eventually dotted the landscape of the island. (...) The plan for Manhattan that Randel and the commissioneers devised is still virtually intact. A few significant changes have been made to it over the years - Broadway, for example, which was not included in the Commissioneers' Plan, could not be eliminated, and Central Park was added in the 1850s - but the monotonous straight street of New York City are the legacy of the Randel Survey'. (Paul E. Cohen and Robert T. Augustyn, "Manhattan in maps: 1527-1995", Rizzoli, 1997, ps. 102-105)."[In] 1851 (...), New Yorkers decided they needed a large park. (...) In January 1852 (...) the Special Commitee On Parks recommended the creation of a much larger park between Fifth and Eight Avenues, from Fifty-ninth to 106th street: 'Central Park will include grounds almost entirely useless for building purposes, owing to the very uneven and rocky surface.' " (p.126)
21.07.2008
espécie de meta-romance-pseudo-ensaio, "polígono das secas" (1995), de diogo mainardi, investe contra a literatura regionalista nordestina, pondo em cena um enigmático personagem, o "untor", que "é como o autor" (p. 118) e que percorre o semi-árido disseminando a morte de retirantes, coronéis, jagunços, vaqueiros, violeiros, cangaceiros, etc., e subvertendo tradições e temas recorrentes do universo sertanejo
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A filha do imperador que
foi morta em Petrolina,
por Wladimir Cazé; folheto de cordel;
Edições K, volume 1, 26 p.,
R$ 2 (com o autor); R$ 5 (pelo correio).
Ilustração: Roney George
Diagramação: Albano M. Ribeiro
