Paginas Do Tempo / Pages of Time

This book Páginas do Tempo, by Bebel Ritzmann, presents an original path to contemporary poetry, engaging qualitatively and simultaneously with the characteristics of the second phase of Mário de Andrade's work and the aesthetic proposals from the 1990s, including those “confessed” alternatives by the poet (and Master in Literature) Lucíola Nogueira, as seen in the poem “Se inda houver amor” (“I present myself”). This is precisely what happens in the thematic core “Folias do (da) amor” (“Follies of love”), and in the profession of faith in the poem “Gerânios” (“Geraniums”) (“Let go of your rehearsed verse... Travel through all dreams... for truth lies within them.”). Throughout the text, dreams in intertwined metaphors result in Allegory. The intertextual interventions are functional. Examples within the Poetic Theme of “Cantigas, Mia Senhor” (“Songs for My Lord”), which refer us to the medieval ballads (“Amor e Amigo” (“Love and Friend”), both authored by them) or to the songs of our Northeastern troubadours, speaking of the fatalistic chance with lines like “when I went, she returned / when I returned, she went”. Furthermore: references to popular wisdom are present, as seen in references to “never” (St. Never’s Day) or in the refrain of Poe's poem. Also, the use of prosimetry and the similarity of the self in construction with the Poem Process are also notable.