In Entrelinhas, Walmir Luiz Becker distills eight decades of life into raw, heartfelt poetry about love, loss, and the quiet weight of passing time.
Memory that resists forgetting
The feelings Walmir Luiz Becker has accumulated over eighty years — and that keep surfacing despite the natural erosions of time — find their shape in the poems of Entrelinhas. Born from pain and joy, from love and its absence, the verses are poetic recollections from a writer who, in old age, continues to feel his own existence fully.
The texts revisit emotions that remain vivid, as if they were happening right now. By weaving together themes of finitude, loss, solitude, and belonging, the collection speaks to readers through feelings that seem to live inside the very experience of being alive.
The everyday as poetic material
With a clear, unpretentious style, the poet reaches for what is most essential in human experience — evoking everyday sensations: the anticipation of Friday, the arrival of autumn in April, the sound of the last train, the end of a love that never had the chance to begin.
I walk in silence, / Thinking, / Thoughts out of order; / Now, as in that past, / I walk down an old street, / In a city that tells me nothing, / Except that she still shelters you, / And that you were unhappy there.
This poem, from page 15, captures the book’s tone with quiet precision: the wandering mind finding in urban space a mirror for emotional memory.
Between Cartola, Pessoa, and Brazil’s landscapes
Through references to samba legend Cartola and tributes to Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, Becker shows how art defies time through artists willing to expose themselves in service of universal feeling. He also portrays Brazilian regions as spaces of melancholy and joy — writing about the sunset at Jericoacoara, the wide avenues of São Paulo, and the dark valley silence of Maratá.
Nothing invented, everything felt
“Everything in my poems was lived and felt — sometimes with joy, sometimes with sadness. Nothing was invented or imagined. From my experiences in the delicate fields of love and heartbreak, from my encounters with the many situations human beings face in life — in which I was often more of a witness than an actor — all of that gave rise to the poems in my book.” — Walmir Luiz Becker
That statement distills the spirit of Entrelinhas: a collection built on the honesty of lived experience, where authenticity is the greatest literary tool.
Event Info
- Title: Entrelinhas
- Author: Walmir Luiz Becker
- Publisher: Marini
- ISBN: 9786583871350
- Pages: 172
- Price: BRL 49.90 (print) | BRL 29.56 (e-book)
- Where to buy: https://a.co/d/0bRSahRX
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