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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Amy Barone reads her poem at its conclusion.
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Learning Brazilian
I no longer roll my r’s.
I get nasal,
lost as I am in learning a new language.
Portuguese always held a special mystique.
This begins to wane
as I enter its world,
master new sounds,
grapple with word endings,
finally understand what Jobim’s lyrics mean.
Brazilians insist sadness belongs in love songs.
Saudade is foreign to strangers
who don’t come from this land of samba,
of happy people who celebrate the passion of longing.
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Listen to Amy Barone read her poem
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Amy Barone’s poetry collection, Defying Extinction, was published by Broadstone Books in 2022. New York Quarterly Books published her book, We Became Summer. She wrote chapbooks Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing). She belongs to the Poetry Society of America, and lives in New York City.
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Listen to the 1959 recording of Joao Gilberto performing Antonio Carlos Jobim’s composition “Chega de Saudade.” Gilberto’s album is considered the first bossa nova record ever recorded. [Zebralution GmbH]
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