A poesia de Jurandyr Bezerra: organização dos manuscritos inéditos de um poeta quase esquecido

Abstract

The poet Jurandyr Bezerra, born in Belém do Pará in 1928 and living in Rio de Janeiro from 1960 until his death in 2012, published only one book, Os limites do pássaro, in 1993. Jurandyr is the least known among modern poets of the Pará that consolidated works throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Still, it received the attention of readers such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Antônio Olinto who, in 1958, awarded him. In the paraense archive, eight sets of unpublished poems remained – As águas de Mara, A lâmina convexa, Configurações, Superfície, O rio da minha aldeia, O signo transverso, A rosa de Jericó e outras notícias da morte e Sombra submersa: recordações da Amazônia – manuscripts distinguishing the paths of the creative process. This paper presents results of the process of classification and organization of manuscripts and poem analysis, designed to show the relevance of unpublished poetry by a significant Brazilian poet of the twentieth century, practically unknown