José Emílio-Nelson - Beleza Tocada

This collection of the poetic works of José Emílio-Nelson (Espinho, 1948), published between 1979 and 2015, under the title "Beleza Tocada" (Beauty Touched), presents itself as a kaleidoscope that unveils and destroys the idea of ​​Beauty in contagious images of extreme sexuality, in combinations that 'touch' linguistic invention, instinctively elliptical, cynical, condensed, in indecent figurations, in decomposition, in scatological forms, which combine the aura of transcendence and excremental hisses.

In this demolishing and deforming work (indebted, among other forbidden lineages, to the folly of Rabelais, to the baroque poetry of Quevédisco, to the filthy world of Sade, to the licentiousness of Saint Teresa of Ávila, to the anticlericalism of Buñuel, to the formal indiscipline of Malher, and to Mantegna, both socially and poetically, as well as to the black paintings of Goya), alongside the rare moral poems (on the vanity of humanity, on the passage of time), burlesque and satirical poems predominate, virulent and bitter, and, in an unpublished book entitled "The Repugnant Love," we also find poems of love and deceit in the disturbing sense of Philip Roth's novels. And other mockeries on the majesty of melancholy and the enigma of writing about it.