Estar na Grama

It gathers poems written, abandoned and taken up again over the course of a decade, and it is the first book signed Danilo de Athayde, the one the author considers his first in earnest. It was published by Patuá, in São Paulo, and poems from it have circulated before and since in escamandro, Germina and Ruído Manifesto. In an interview with Sidney Summers, he said that in the first section, which gives the collection its title, he set himself the perhaps impossible task of imagining a “Whitman dentro de casa”, a Whitman inside the house.