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As Cantinas e outros Poemas do Álcool e do Mar

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First published January 1, 2008

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Malcolm Lowry

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Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece Under the Volcano is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Born near Liverpool, England, Lowry grew up in a prominent, wealthy family and chafed under the expectations placed upon him by parents and boarding school. He wrote passionately on the themes of exile and despair, and his own wanderlust and erratic lifestyle made him an icon to later generations of writers.

Lowry died in a rented cottage in the village of Ripe, Sussex, where he was living with wife Margerie after having returned to England in the summer of 1955, ill and impoverished. The coroner's verdict was death by misadventure, and the causes of death given as inhalation of stomach contents, barbiturate poisoning, and excessive consumption of alcohol.

It has been suggested that his death was a suicide. Inconsistencies in the accounts given by his wife at various times about what happened at the night of his death have also given rise to suspicions of murder.

Lowry is buried in the churchyard of St John the Baptist in Ripe. Lowry reputedly wrote his own epitaph: "Here lies Malcolm Lowry, late of the Bowery, whose prose was flowery, and often glowery. He lived nightly, and drank daily, and died playing the ukulele," but the epitaph does not appear on his gravestone

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Profile Image for Paula Mota.
1,789 reviews608 followers
March 11, 2025
EPITÁFIO

Malcolm Lowry
Último da Bowery
Tinha uma prosa florida
E muitas vezes gloriosa
Vivia noite após noite e bebia dia após dia
E morreu tocando ukelele

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DÁ-ME UM POEMA

Dá-me um poema
Para despedaçar o coração dos homens
Puro como lâminas
Como o som de um relógio
Sobre o pântano.
Diz-me o significado, espectro,
E diz-me a hora
Em que me perco
E em que quarto serei encontrado outra vez.
Dá-me o poder da minha mão
E que as minhas palavras sejam sãs
E fortes como o voo.
Conduz o meu aparo,
Ajuda-me a escrever,
Mostra-me as portas
Onde estão as ordens;
E a prisão
Que a minha alma contempla,
Onde a minha coragem
Ruge entre as grades.
Profile Image for Paula  Abreu Silva.
409 reviews119 followers
June 4, 2017
UM RIO SECO É COMO A ALMA

"Um rio seco é como a alma
De um poeta que não pode escrever, embora conheça
Quase perfeitamente o tema e as mágoas
Da morte ressequida como o estio. Mas o que queria,
E foi outrora um mar puro do mais puro cristal
Recua, torna-se sombrio como arbustos amoniacais, como
as folhas antigas do amor,
E abandona o pensamento. Não imagina
Nada que o possa substituir: só no pólo
Da memória oscila uma absurda bússola.
Por isso o rio, entre as lamentáveis árvores sombrias,
É uma agonia de pedras, de horrores submersos
Agora revelados, descoloridos. Por isso existem estas,
Estas pedras, estas ninharias
Quando o rio é uma estrada e a mente um vazio."
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