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Brazilian writer and poet Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999), author of "Morte e vida Severina", poses in front of Guanabara Bay and Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 4, 1994. "Morte e Vida Severina"
(translated in part by Elizabeth Bishop as "Death and Life of a Severino"), his most famous work, is a very long narrative poem (in most editions it goes over 80 pages) that describes the life of a poor country man in the dry northeastern part of Brazil. (Austral Foto/Renzo Gostoli)

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