The red smile of the flames

Guimarães Rosa's thirty poems

Abstract

In this opportunity, Manuel Barrós introduces and translates a selection of poems of Magma [Magma] (1997), Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa”™s book of poetry. These poems let know the first work that he wrote and for which he won Academia Brasileira de Letras”™s price of poetry in 1936. As the book was unpublished until 1997, the author was knew, posthumously, like a poet in verses and not only in prose. Therefore, publishing these poems, the translator increases the scene of Guimarães Rosa”™s literature in Peru and Latin America.