Writer Ana Carolina Francisco releases “Bodies, Cracks and Borders”, an e-book that blends poetry, memory and female resistance.
Based in Rio de Janeiro, writer, screenwriter and journalist Ana Carolina Francisco launches her new e-book “Bodies, Cracks and Borders” (Letramento Publishing). The work gathers poems written between the ages of 18 and 23, narrating the coming-of-age journey of a young woman moving through affection, displacement and political awakening, weaving together poetry, memory and rebellion.
Poetry as an act of politics and affection
Written between Brazil, England and the United States, the poems explore themes such as first loves, sexuality, cultural shocks, feminism and the tension between desire and repression. Ana turns personal experience into a political gesture, building a writing style that moves between the intimate and the collective.
According to Ana, “telling our story first saves us, and then we never know who it might embrace or empower.” For her, writing becomes a moment of breathing and self-connection: “When we women write and share our stories, it is an act of courage and calm — the outside world quiets, and it’s just me and the paper.”
A poetic portrait of self-discovery
The book is divided into five sections — In the Whisper Between Cracks, Prayer, Cracks, Fractures and Borders, Curves of Body and Abyss and From My Sweat, a River. Each part serves as a poetic essay on body, freedom and female identity. Through these sections, readers follow the author’s growth and her confrontation with the cultural and emotional structures that shape women’s lives.
Voices and critical readings
With a preface by Professor Sérgio Mota (PUC-Rio) and back-cover text by writer Susana Fuentes, the collection is presented as a poetry of subversion and resilience. Mota describes Ana’s writing as a “theater of subversion” that “eternalizes everyday ephemerality,” while Fuentes calls her “a plural voice of women who rekindle silenced bodies and histories.”
Ana’s influences include Adélia Prado and Hilda Hilst, along with Pablo Neruda, Ana Cristina César, T.S. Eliot and Florbela Espanca — to whom she dedicates the book. Her work fuses spirituality, eroticism and social reflection through a deeply personal lens.
About the author
Ana Carolina Francisco is a writer, screenwriter and journalist. She holds a degree in Communication from PUC-Rio, studied Film and TV at UCLA (USA) and Communication at the University of Liverpool (UK). Currently pursuing a master’s degree at UERJ, she works across literature, cinema and theater. Her works have been showcased and awarded in festivals in Brazil and abroad.
The e-book “Bodies, Cracks and Borders” is available for purchase on Amazon and through Editora Letramento’s website (editoraletramento.com.br/produto/corpos-fendas-e-fronteiras.html).
