"Write Smart, Write Happy: How to Become a More Productive, Resilient and Successful Writer": a minha "review"

"Write Smart, Write Happy: How to Become a More Productive, Resilient and Successful Writer", de Cheryl St. John, foi-me cedido pela Netgalley e pelo editor para que eu fizesse uma apreciação honesta deste livro. Não há de momento edição em português. Publiquei a minha opinião na Amazon e no Goodreads com 4/5 estrelas e a seguinte "review":

"I’ll start to confess that I went to check how many books Cheryl St. John had published: the answer is dozens of them. She knows what she is talking about. She’s a prolific writer that was already getting published in the nineties.

This is not the usual book about the writing process, inspiration, emotion and momentum. This is not about the magic of creation. It’s about organized work and productivity. It's about showing up. It reminds me of some books about time management and setting goals. All this applied to creative writing, with multiple examples. Good book.

I received this book as an eARC from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for my honest review".

Livros têm a forma de portas: um poema / “Books are door-shaped”: a poem

Quint Buchholz

Tula [“Books are door-shaped”] 

Books are door-shaped

portals

carrying me

across oceans

and centuries,

helping me feel

less alone.

But my mother believes

that girls who read too much

are unladylike

and ugly,

so my father's books are locked

in a clear glass cabinet. I gaze

at enticing covers

and mysterious titles,

but I am rarely permitted

to touch

the enchantment

of words.

Poems.

Stories.

Plays.

All are forbidden.

Girls are not supposed to think,

but as soon as my eager mind

begins to race, free thoughts

rush in

to replace

the trapped ones.

I imagine distant times

and faraway places.

Ghosts.

Vampires.

Ancient warriors.

Fantasy moves into

the tangled maze

of lonely confusion.

Secretly, I open

an invisible book in my mind,

and I step

through its magical door-shape

into a universe

of dangerous villains

and breathtaking heroes.

Many of the heroes are men

and boys, but some are girls

so tall

strong

and clever

that they rescue other children

from monsters.

Margarita Engle

Essa coisa maravilhosa chamada livro / That wonderful thing called book

Adrian Gottlieb

"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book". 

Margaret Walker

Andrew Scott interpreta de forma magnífica as primeiras falas de Hamlet: "To be or not to be"

"Andrew Scott, as Hamlet, performs the opening lines of Shakespeare's most famous soliloquy".

BBCArts

Muito bom!

Poemas de ponta & mola

poesia & poesia


poesia pró coração
poesia procuração
poesia rissóis pra fora
poesia para a velhice
para atrasados mentais
e também prá parvoíce

poesia libidinosa
para acordar os chéchés
e pra outras coisas mais

a poesia cor-de-rosa
para corações doentes
de donzelas suspirosas
rosas rosas amarelas

poesia clorofilada
para lavagem de dentes

poesia para o natal
expressamente encomendada
e poesia natalícia
pró menino dos papás
a poesia necrológica

dum velhinho trucla zás

a poesia só formal
porque o poeta coitado
tem o vício de escrever


a poesia cautelosa
porqu’isto nunca se sabe


a poesia fadunchada
e uma fadista aluada


a poesia da borbulha
que passa depois daquilo


poesia obrigada a mote
a cavalo num poeta
sentado num burro a trote


a poesia pra que conste
dum poeta muito muito
muito muito muito bicha

poesia quinquagenária
duma jovem rapariga


poesia bordada à mão
dum ancião já sem pé


a poesia ao pé da mão
a poesia ao pé do pé


poesia encapada capada


poesia para tudo
poesia para nada

Mendes de Carvalho "Poemas de ponta & mola"

 
Via Bruaá Editora

3 conselhos de Madeleine L'Engle para quem quer ser escritor / 3 advice from Madeleine L'Engle for those who want to write

"The Writer", Agnes Boulloche

“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.”

Madeleine L'Engle

3 citações para comemorar a Primavera / 3 quotes to celebrate Spring

"Spring", 1933, Leon Wyczólkowski (1852-1936)

“I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.”

George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, 2000

“She turned to the sunlight

And shook her yellow head,

And whispered to her neighbor:

‘Winter is dead.'”

A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, 1924

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Afternoon On A Hill,” 1917

Dia Mundial da Poesia: um poema "sobre um poema"

"Escrever com o coração", Fernando Vicente

Sobre um Poema



Um poema cresce inseguramente
na confusão da carne,
sobe ainda sem palavras, só ferocidade e gosto,
talvez como sangue
ou sombra de sangue pelos canais do ser.


Fora existe o mundo. Fora, a esplêndida violência
ou os bagos de uva de onde nascem
as raízes minúsculas do sol.
Fora, os corpos genuínos e inalteráveis
do nosso amor,
os rios, a grande paz exterior das coisas,
as folhas dormindo o silêncio,
as sementes à beira do vento,
- a hora teatral da posse.
E o poema cresce tomando tudo em seu regaço.


E já nenhum poder destrói o poema.
Insustentável, único,
invade as órbitas, a face amorfa das paredes,
a miséria dos minutos,
a força sustida das coisas,
a redonda e livre harmonia do mundo.

- Em baixo o instrumento perplexo ignora
a espinha do mistério.
- E o poema faz-se contra o tempo e a carne.

Herberto Helder

Fonte: Citador

Hoje é o Dia Mundial da Poesia! / Today is World Poetry Day!

7 citações de Madeleine L’Engle / 7 quotes of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ author Madeleine L’Engle

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

“When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.”

“Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.”

“If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.”

Madeleine L’Engle

"Há mulheres que trazem o mar nos olhos" diz Sophia de Mello Breyner

Charles Dana Gibson

Há mulheres que trazem o mar nos olhos
Não pela cor
Mas pela vastidão da alma

E trazem a poesia nos dedos e nos sorrisos
Ficam para além do tempo
Como se a maré nunca as levasse
Da praia onde foram felizes

Há mulheres que trazem o mar nos olhos
pela grandeza da imensidão da alma
pelo infinito modo como abarcam as coisas e os homens...
Há mulheres que são maré em noites de tardes...
e calma

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, em "Obra Poética"

Porque amanhã é o Dia da Mulher, aqui fica o segredo de uma "mulher fenomenal" por Maya Angelou / "Phenomenal Woman", a poem by Maya Angelou

Joseph Lorusso, 1966

Phenomenal Woman, por Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.


I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.


Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much

But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.


Maya Angelou