Quoted by Cármen Lúcia for introducing her to, the cultural manager Affonso Borges said that the minister, her friend, wanted to contemplate the culture and resistance role in her vote on Thursday (11).
Early on her speech, the minister recited an excerpt from the poem “What country is this?”, By Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, who died in March this year, which says, “One thing is a country, another is a country. One thing is a country, one thing is a country, another the debris.”
For Borges, the minister paid tribute to cultural manifestations in periods of combat, as after the 1964 military coup.
“In periods of darkness, culture has always been present. Affonso Romano is one of the poets that most made his masterpiece of his masterpiece. He wrote his entire work during the dictatorship, is a resistance,” said Borges. “She quoted a poet that most knew how to combine poetry and resistance to the military dictatorship.”
Poet, chronicler and essayist, Affonso is a native of Belo Horizonte, and the minister of Montes Claros, in the north of Minas Gerais.
Consumed as one of the most influential intellectuals of contemporary, Sant’Anna built a work marked by critical reflection, lyricism and social engagement. , at 87.
Already Afonso Borges organized international literature festivals in Itabira-MG, Paracatu-MG and Petrópolis-RJ.
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