The book “Nossa terra our people – The voice of the community in the poetic expression of traditional inspiration”, by Joaquim Miquelino Gomes, has just been launched by the Association for Research and Study of Orality (APEOrality).
The work is born from the investigation of Professor José Ruivinho Brazão, who also coordinates and presents the study, and appears with the objective of divulging, promoting and recognizing popular poets, as well as preserving the aesthetic-linguistic and historical-cultural identity of a people.
The professor met the poet, already in the final stretch of his life, in Boliqueime (1979), and with him began a persistent dialogue from which this book was born. «Ruivinho Brazão was led, and why not say, seduced, by the simplicity and lucidity of the literary work, with a strong interventionist nature, of this simple man», says the APEOrality.
Thus, a work appears that is divided into six chapters (the first reveals Parragil, the poet's wife's birthplace, «with poems that touch on the arrival of light and the opening of ways of communication», the second focuses on Portugal, in which it is very sensitive to poverty and inequality, the third draws the reality of the country and Europe, the fourth documents the meeting with António Aleixo, in Paris, the fifth shows the singing of the beauty of women, of love and the sixth offers the poetry of pure imagination and the challenge in a game of puns.
Born in 1888 in Santa Margarida do Sado and “Algarvian” by choice, Joaquim Miquelino is immortalized in the words of the president of the Sociedade Parragilense Aurélia Fernandes.
In this work, J. Ruivinho Brazão highlights two poems relating to his encounter with Aleixo, in Paris, and another, in which Miquelino questions himself about the joy and hope brought about by the changes in April 1974.
In addition to the critical view of the world, what most attracted the researcher were «the poetic despiques, the song of women and love, the fictional texts, the poetry of pure imagination, gratuitousness and the world in reverse», an express poetry in tenths attached to the mote, characteristic from Baixo Alentejo.
Miquelino died in 1983, in Salir. He was 95 years old. The work has the support of the Councils of Albufeira and Loulé and the Parish Council of Boliqueime.
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