The academic, writer, and poet has been a professor for 20 years at Sorbonne in Paris and dedicates to researching and disseminating the similarities between migratory flows, including Arabs in Brazil.
Professor, author, and poet Leonardo Tonus will participate in the International Book and Publishing Fair in Rabat, Morocco, and is the first Brazilian invited to the Sidi Bou Saïd International Poetry Festival in Tunisia.
Three Poems by Salgado Maranhão
Islander
the word that is a stone in flight.
I listen to the sea singing your Azores,
an ax splitting open silence.
I, too, am that stone that sings:
a bird stitched to the Atlantic.
Oh Islander of Lusitanian seas,
that gave me a tongue with the salt
of their words; between the howling of the sea and the unfathomable wind:
the poet is always an island of stars!
who pray to the stomach
without metaphysics. Of those who
drown their sufferings
I am a creature of speech
bearing bones
from behind the shadows,