Martha Medeiros, or just like a woman.

Martha Medeiros, or just like a woman.

Martha Medeiros poems, Brazilian Contemporary Poetry

Martha Medeiros is a Brazilian poet who began publishing in the second half of the 80. His first book appeared in 1985 named, Strip-Tease. Since then many books have succeeded. His style is fast and straightforward, concise and humorous at same time. By Martha Medeiros unveils fleches fast the various moons of a normal middle class woman, with her adventures and misadventures in everyday urban life. Odd portrait of contemporary femininity, or, perhaps one face of it.

Her Books are: Strip-Tease (1985), Midnight and a Room (1987), Persona non Grata (1991) and Face Flushed (1995).

I’m think which her poetry is more interesting for the shadowed thematic exploited than its formal quality. In truth, the rime and spelling of her verse doesn’t represent any kind of innovation in Brazilian poetry tradition highly impacted for the movements “concretistas” e “neo-concretistas” which the great represents are Harold de Campus, Ferreira Gullar and Decio Pignatari.