Rafael Hanuman

Poetry of a Man. A Man like that, with a capital M. And this is not a rhetorical figure from today's times. It is a man, making poetry. It is about Life or Death, Severe. A man married to an ugly woman.

Jokes aside, it is true that João Cabral de Mello Neto was one of those men raised on embellishments, sheets watered with rose water, shirts ironed by his mother, who also combed his hair, parted to the side.

In the time when it was considered odd for a man to like cake or chocolate, João came from there, perhaps with a knife in his hand, and entered the world of poetry and poets.

João Cabral grew up in the time of Lampião. However, he was a cultured man, a cultured man. He was an ambassador, and so on, a diplomat, at the edge of courtesy and affected politeness.

So, how does a guy like this manage to write a poem? If the artist is good, it works out well.

Because art is independent of sexual preference, skin color, social class, etc.

And this guy was good at poetry, he is in the team of the best of the best.