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    LIFE - The Challenge
    LIFE - The Challenge
    LIFE - The Challenge
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    LIFE - The Challenge

    By João Calazans Filho

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    The author always faithful to his though established as basis, politics, religion and diplomacy.

    The new poems in LIFE – The Challenge, brings forth daily reflections from the common every day, in which he leaves spaces philosophically so that the reader feels as part of the thought process.

    LIFE is part of individual searches, unravelling the understanding of who we are, how we imagine ourselves and how we would like to be.

    This is another poetic adventure from the author, and, during it’s reading, we feel a little witch and wizard, with ample powers to justify the intention of comprehending better the human being and make them better beings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateNov 23, 2018
    ISBN9781386217855
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      LIFE - The Challenge - João Calazans Filho

      Life – The challenger

      João Calazans Filho

      Translated by José Esteves

      São Paulo

      October 2018

      Credits:

      Cover – João Calazans Filho

      Illustration and Cover Art – Iuri Garcia

      Foto – Regis Porto

      Introduction – Ed Ribeiro

      Dedication

      I dedicate this book to my father João Calazans dos Santos (In memoriam), to my dear mother Izaurinha Teixeira Porto, to my sister Maria Calazans, to my children Allan, Pedro e Caio Calazans, Allana and Arthur.

      Acknowledgment

      Douglas, Kelly, Zé Leão, Tammer, Brito, Eduardo, Cintia, Nilton Cruz, Fauzi, Neusa, Adnan, Sheila, Monica, Amanda, Amira, Mauricio Doria, Fabiana Moura, Marcelo Dória, Márcio Dória, Ed Ribeiro, Binho, Jacaré, Paulinho, Maia, Jaqueline, Fred, Paulo Bittencourt, Marzio, Euzínio, Condessa Irma Matarazzo, Marcelo Matarazzo, Jardelson Andrade, Ewandro, Cândido, Orlando, Davizinho, Laura, Begonia, Cantina do Jullius, Col. Pacheco, Vernanda, Ramon, Andonius, André, Zé Martins, Leno, Marcão, Cleber, Roberto and Angela Landwehr, Fred, Walter Leone, Gilberto Galvão, Zé Mauricio, Vasco, Aline, Iuri Garcia, Edu and Cida Casanova, Roberto Santana, Samia, Nasser and Juliana.

      Index

      The Strength

      The Window

      Something

      The Possession

      Abyss

      The Actions 

      The Complexityof Love

      Inspiration

      Friend

      The Life

      Walk

      Confused

      Childhood

      No Encounter

      Two Worlds

      Encounters

      The Scream

      ThisFreedom

      Strange

      The Greatnessof Time

      Rescue

      Light andDarkness

      Fear

      Women

      TrapsofRecentPolitics

      The SweetWalkofLoneliness

      Reality

      The Power

      The People andthePoliticians

      Passion

      Spring

      Demand

      RespectingBoundaries

      Wish

      ElbowPain (Jealousy)

      The Passion

      War

      Existing

      Introduction

      The poet and novelist João Calazans Filho has a unique trait when in search of new paradigms to create a renewed thought. I say renewed, because everything in this world has been invented or created by someone already.

      When, though, I look back to the themes used by the author, it looks like I’ve been taken back to paths I’ve already walked through.

      More than reflexive, his new oeuvre the Vida – O desafio, challenged me to rethink my actions be it in the plane of feelings, religion, politics and, more importantly, coexistence.

      The noble

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