A 30-year old poem about
José Antonio da Silva (1909-1996)
Silva, Artist
"For the primitive there are
no adjectives. There are only
nouns. To me grass is green.
That’s it. I’m a primitivist."
Featured in Veja, as he was
just last week, this paragon
of pride, lays his ninth muse,
he says. Thus he makes love,
at one remove, to himself.
That’s it. I’m a primitivist."
Featured in Veja, as he was
just last week, this paragon
of pride, lays his ninth muse,
he says. Thus he makes love,
at one remove, to himself.
São Paulo, Brasil
June 27, 1985
George Monteiro is a lifelong student and teacher of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, contributing to the scholarship on numerous writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and Bob Dylan. His latest book is Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed (McFarland, 2012).
