Side Effects

João Manuel Ribeiro (poems) Paulo Stocker (Illustration)

A poet + a cartoonist = Secondary Effects.

That’s how it is: reading these poems by João Manuel Ribeiro can have «Secondary Effects» on readers, especially on the most attentive… Starting with a first part, of 14 poems, entitled «Os Cotovelos da Casa», it continues, in a second part, with 46 poems recorded in a «Notebook of Implications».

In addition to the motifs of the house, where there are ants, a swing, his father’s whistle, the sky of ants, a magusto, love letters and a Christmas wish, he “teases” with the neighbor’s unicorn, the old king, his stepmother and the princess, two men lying on the asphalt, a certain beggar, the chess players, the madmen, the shepherd, an unemployed woman, the cats, a vengeful paralytic, a hobbyhorse, a strange girl, the whale of a certain prophet, an accordionist, the wolves, a poet and the truly happy…

Accompanying the poems are the drawings by the Brazilian Paulo Stocker that surprise by their simplicity and (assumed) naivety…

A book of poems for teenagers and young people with the explicit intention of bothering…

Age: +12