Cantigas de Amor & Maldizer
Cantigas de Amor & Maldizer (or Songs of Love & Cursing) is a book by Jovino Machado – a Brazilian poet who has been publishing his work since the 1980’s. The texts are about the excitement of love and the injuries of breaking up. Intending to be a collector’s edition, there were printed only fifty copies, each one signed and numbered by the author.
With just 4 x 5 inches, the book is delivered for the reader sealed. In the cover, there is a red woodcut of the artist Rachel Leão, reprinted by the engraver Alessandro Lima especially for this edition. However, in the inside, the reader can find a title page in emerald green apart some delicate botanic drawings and scientific illustrations of beetles. The contrasting pallet and the different kinds of images follow the main concept of the project: the duality, present both in the title and in the poems.
Design: Daniel Bilac e Valquíria Rabelo
Woodcut [cover]: Rachel Leão
Printing: Alessandro Lima
[2013]
