Publisher's Synopsis
In the introduction to this first-ever editorial selection of Moraes's poems Hoskote proposes a new reading of his career regarding him as an early but unrecognised transcultural artist. As against the better-known Moraes who apprenticed himself to the Romantics Hoskote emphasises the less familiar Moraes who offered fierce testimony to the twentieth century's dramas of betrayal slaughter and heroism.