A LITTLE PORTMANTEAU OF NOCTURNAL PASSIONS (US$9,99 @ amazon.com) includes 25 poems plus 52 haiku. Among them 'How tiresome a little portmanteau of heavy slogans is': Mr Correa was born in Rio de Janeiro, to Brazilian parents, lived in the UK during the 1970s and in the U.S. during the 1980s. He wrote 'Efabulações de aprendiz', 'Aurora Valeriana', 'A Little Portmanteau of Nocturnal Passions', 'The Passage of Time', 'Distopia & Sensibilidade', 'Portraiture', 'Retratos de Aprendiz', 'Um Filme Não É Um Filme', 'Do Studio System ao Formato CGI', 'Unflashy, ; Matter-of-fact Flash Fiction', 'No Pretério Mais Que Imperfeito' plus a number of prefaces or introductions. He has also been into print media, short-wave radio broadcasting, translating, cultural programming, teaching, and TV talk-show hosting. As a screenplayer he penned two scripts, namely 'Desenho industrial' and 'Paraty: Impressões'. As a compiler, he edited José L Grunewald's 'Escreviver' (Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo,2008) , and 'O Grau Zero do Escreviver' (Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo,2002) . Mr. Correa is a random blogger, and a disappointing tennis player. A fine bridge player, though. He is not currently writing an aesthetics treaty. And FYI he is heartly opposed to being politically correct.
The night is singing with sighs of love
From its corridors, rays of light pattern magnetic nanodots
I cross the night
Suffering from love's pain
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What freedom can dispense with proper critique
When outsourced cult opinions struggle by?
Which impartial critic is without archetypes
And clichés drawn from vernacular maligners?
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AURORA VALERIANA
In Paul Valéry, the morose confusion
Works dreamlike, dissipating from the rose
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He wakes up in infinite, condensed satin.
He likes fireplace mantles famished in granite.
The best honey is a tasted kiss, and
Pure poetry is prototype candidness
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Let us wander about the streets of Noto,
and think upon what is a thought made of.
An ultimate regard to its trees' stillness
must evoke treasured vedute unburied.
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