João Maimona
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Poemas

POEMA PARA CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE português

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POESIA (REQUALIFICADA) DE GLÓRIA português

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DIMENSÃO INTERIOR português

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IDADE DAS PALAVRAS português

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AS MERCADORIAS QUE DESLIZAM NA RUA PÚBLICA português

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AS MURALHAS DA NOITE português

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Festa de monarquia português

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PASTORAL DAS MENINAS EM REPARTIDAS ESTRADAS FALANTES português

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[a infância do mendigo e a promessa do poema.] português

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Acalmia ruidosa. Em quatro sinos português

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João Maimona
Author

About

* 08.10.1955, Quibocolo, Angola
vive em: Luanda, Angola

The poet João Maimona (born 1955 in Angola) fled as a child to Zaïre, whilst Angola was practically in a state of civil war in the years before the 1975 Declaration of Independence. He started studying humanities in Kinshasa, returning to Angola in 1976 to complete his degree in veterinary medicine. He is a member of Angola's National Assembly and from 1993 to 2000 was President of the Parliamentary Commission for Education, Science and Technology and Director of the National Veterinary Research Institute (IIV). He also teaches at the Universidade Agostinho Neto in Luanda.

Maimona is part of the generation of the 80s and 90s in Angolan poetry, whose verse is characterised by experiments with language. The Spanish literary critic Xosé Lois Garcia sees this as a precursor to postmodernism in Angolan poetry. Thematically, Maimona's poems reveal a tension between the aesthetic search for beauty and the pain of memory, which is revived in a dialogue between the senses and the wounds of the past.

Maimona's most recent poetry collection is O Sentido do Regresso e a Alma do Barco (2007).