In an imagined society, materialism controls every aspect of the lives of its inhabitants: people have numbers instead of names, foods are measured with total accuracy, even affections are counted by the gram, and families have artists instead of pets. A girl has chosen to have a poet, and her life will never be the same…
A story about the importance of poetry, creativity and culture in our lives, celebrating the beauty of ideas and disinterested actions.
“Readers find themselves in front of a true document of culture that does not hide its strength or the transformative power that it holds, even within a world of barbarism”. – Carlos Roberto dos Santos Menezes, Revista NEPA UFF
“The important thing is that looking at the world is made more digestible […] through good prose and verse. One can see the great benefit of ‘buying a poet’ to express yourself in a brief, playful and brilliant way”. – Marcel Socías Montofré, BioBioChile
“This is the kind of book we want to buy in piles and put under everyone’s door. Beautiful, delicate, moving”. – Tamires de Carvalho, Literatura blog
104 pages – Original Language: Portuguese (Caminho, 2016; Penguin Random House 2027). Foreign Editions: Spain/Latin America excl. Chile/Colombia (Libros del Asteroide, 2025) Greek (Eurasia Publications, 2025); Hebrew (Poetry Place, 2026); Arabic (Masciliana), Brazil (Dublinense), Chile (Hueders), Colombia (Panamericana), Korean (Dawon), Croatian (Edicije Bozicevic), Macedonian (Tri).