Balengotengos: poemas de botija

Gilson Soares Cordeiro

doi:10.35260/54211819-2024

Balengotengos: jar poems

Authors

Gilson Soares Cordeiro

IFCE Campus Camocim

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5306-1777

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35260/54211819-2024

Keywords:

Brazilian literature, Poems, Literature

Synopsis

Simply putting words together does not make a poem. A poem is made of pleasures that are becoming increasingly rare: life, friends, love, a Lou Reed song, bare feet on the sand at the beach. Little things that we keep in the recesses of our existence, in jars filled with memories. One fine day we decide that the time has come to share them. This is what the poet Gilson Soares Cordeiro does when he provides us with his jar poems, one of the best poems produced in the Portuguese language. A beauty!

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Author Biography

Gilson Soares Cordeiro, IFCE Campus Camocim

Balengotengo: a children's toy made with string and two stones, each tied to the ends of the string. Used to fly kites stuck in trees, wires and other hard-to-reach places. Botija: jars or boxes used to store money and valuables. They were usually buried in secret places and revealed only to trustworthy people to unearth the treasure. My heart: a jar of balengotengos. Gilson Soares Cordeiro is a Portuguese and English teacher at IFCE Campus and was a teacher in the Ceará state school system - SEDUC (2004 - 2012). PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Postgraduate Program in Applied Linguistics - Posla/UECE (2015), master's degree in Applied Linguistics from the same program (2011), specialist in Literature and Semiotics - UECE (2009), graduated in Portuguese - English Letters from UFC (2003), short stories published in anthologies, is a member of the Camocinense Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (ACCAL) - Camocim/CE.