%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°I know of places where there are stones that talk to me¡±: A. M. Pires Cabral¡¯s Arado through the lens of Ecocriticism
%A Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves
%J Ecozon@ : European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
%D 2012
%I EASLCE & GIECO
%X A.M. Pires Cabral (b. 1941) is a Portuguese poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. His first book of poetry Somewhere in the Northeast (1974), condenses the originality of his poetic achievement: the meeting between classic form and rural experience. Stemming from the fact that his poetry is based on a specific place and on an instance of attention to ordinary people and objects is a vision which underlines the involvement of the human destiny with the landscape we inhabit. This paper concentrates on the way A. M. Pires Cabral¡¯s poetry has been an example of attentiveness to and of human conversation with the non-human world. Its uniqueness stems from the relationship to a remote and rural Portuguese region. If isolation defines the place, Pires Cabral¡¯s poetry builds a sense of inclusion and communion between physical place, people, and animals, that is, a sense of belonging. The article analyses A. M. Pires Cabral¡¯s Plow (2009), a book in which his poetic engagement with the natural world promotes new insights into the potential role of poetry, generating a greater environmental awareness and calling for new visions and new responsibility.
%U http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/288/628