Education by Stone by Neto, Joao Cabral De Melo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents About the Selection and Translation Acknowledgments from PEDRA DO SONO / STONE OF SLEEP (1942)

Windows Poetry Water and the Poem

from O ENGENHEIRO / THE ENGINEER (1945)

The Dancer The Engineer The Table The Office Clerk The Lesson of Poetry

from PSICOLOGIA DA COMPOSIÇÃO / PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPOSITION (1947)

Psychology of Composition Antiode O CÃO SEM PLUMAS / THE DOG WITHOUT FEATHERS (1950)

from PAISAGENS COM FIGURAS / LANDSCAPES WITH FIGURES (1956)

Tourist Pitch for Recife The Wind in the Canefield Cemetery in Pernambuco (Toritama) Encounter with a Poet Cemetery in Pernambuco (São Lourenço da Mata) A Few Matadors Cemetery in Pernambuco (Nossa Senhora da Luz)

from QUADERNA / FOUR-SPOT (1960)

Cemetery in Alagoas (Trapiche da Barra) The Woman and the House Cemetery in Paraíba (between Flores and Princesa) The Word Silk Cemetery in Pernambuco (Floresta do Navio) Cemetery in Pernambuco (Custódia)

from DOIS PARLAMENTOS / TWO PARLIAMENTS (1961)

Party at the Manor House

from SERIAL / SERIAL (1961)

Yes Against Yes The Egg

from A EDUCAÇÃO PELA PEDRA / EDUCATION BY STONE (1966)

The Sea and the Canefield Education by Stone On Sitting / Being-in-the-World Weaving the Morning Tale of an Architect Speechless Rivers The Canefield and the Sea Rivers for a Day Psychoanalysis of Sugar The Kingdoms of Yellow On a Monument to Aspirin Inhabiting Time For the Book Fair

from MUSEU DE TUDO / CATCHALL MUSEUM (1975)

The Insomnia of Monsieur Teste W. H. Auden The Unconfessing Artist Berceo’s Catechism The Waters of Recife The Architecture of Sugarcane Rilke in New Poems The Autograph Proust and His Book

from A ESCOLA DAS FACAS / THE SCHOOL OF KNIVES (1980)

Plantation Boy Horácio The Voice of the Canefield Fort Orange, Itamaracá The Voice of the Coconut Grove The School of Knives The Sandbank at Sirinhaém Sugarcane Girl Sugarcane and the Eighteenth Century

from AGRESTES / ROUGH & RUDE (1985)

The Nothing That Is Banks & Cathedrals Renewed Homage to Marianne Moore Sandwater In the Páramo The Bed and the Car Right to Death A Question of Punctuation

from CRIME NA CALLE RELATOR / CRIME ON THE CALLE RELATOR (1987)

The Ironware Shop in Carmona

Notes to the Poems Afterword