Roberto Piva, , Brazilian poet and writer, has died from complications from Parkinson's disease he was 72

Roberto Piva was a Brazilian poet and writer. He died from complications from Parkinson's disease.

(September 25, 1937, São Paulo – July 3, 2010, São Paulo)

The personal story of the poet Roberto Piva starts and revolves around the city of Sao Paulo. He grew up and graduated from the capital and the ancient estates of the father, in the State of São Paulo.. His first poems were published in 1961, when he was 23. Around this time, she joined the famous Anthology of Novíssimos of Massao Ohno, in which he threw several Brazilian poets beginners, who later developed a poetic work of importance. Piva graduated in sociology. In his classes to teenagers in high school used to work the materials from which the poems was read and interpret. It was a very successful professor with a rare vocation as a teacher. In the 1970s, he became producer of rock concerts. Piva lives in Sao Paulo, a city that looks ominous, example of what should not be done against the environment, but it provided all the background for his poetic work.

Bibliography

Booklet

• Ode a Fernando Pessoa, 1961

Individual works

• Paranóia, 1963
• Piazzas, 1964
• Abra os olhos e diga ah!, 1975
• Coxas, 1979
• 20 Poemas com Brócoli, 1981
• Antologia Poética, 1985
• Ciclones, 1997
• Um Estrangeiro na Legião: obras reunidas, volume 1, 2005
• Mala na Mão & Asas Pretas: obras reunidas, volume 2, 2006
• Estranhos Sinais de Saturno: obras reunidas, volume 3, 2008

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