Alcides Werk
1934–2003
· lived 68 years
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n. 1934-12-20, Aquidauana, MS · m. 2003-11-13, Manaus, AM
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ALCIDES WERK GOMES DE MATOS (Alcides Werk) was born on December 20, 1934, in Aquidauana, MS, and passed away on November 13, 2003, in Manaus, AM.
Son of Sjukiel Werk and Alcides Gomes de Mattos. As a boy, he lost his mother to malaria.
A career employee of the DCT (later split into ECT and DENTEL).
He worked as a telegraph operator in Tocantins, lived in Belém, and in 1954, at the age of 20, he moved to Amazonas, initially settling in Manaus, but later moving to the Middle Amazonas (Maués, Nhamundá, and surrounding areas), as a career employee of DENTEL, from which he retired.
Back in Manaus, he launched Da Noite do Rio in '74, whose poems later became part of Trilha D’água, launched in 1980, and reissued (with additions) in '82, '85, and '94.
He also worked at the Official Press, where he edited the Suplemento Literário Amazonas for two years.
The poet passed away in Manaus on November 13, 2003.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ↑
A poet with an Amazonian identity, forged through living in the interior, a result of his adventures along the upper rivers, the paranás, the distant lakes, drawing from aboriginal culture.
He was always involved in cultural issues and exalted the nature and beauty of Manaus in his poems and songs.
He possessed excellent command of grammar and dedicated himself with great pleasure to the work of editing books, one of his most important activities.
Alcides Werk will always be the poet of the waters. While some poets born in Amazonas migrated to other Brazilian states, he took the opposite route. He left his homeland, Mato Grosso do Sul, arriving in Amazonas in 1954, when he was just 20 years old, where he remained until his death.
Despite being intimately and passionately identified with the Amazonian region, Werk does not allow himself to be carried away by the easy play of colors. The chiaroscuro of his poetry has nuances that only the most contemplative and patient gaze can perceive. Considering only the day/night aspect, one observes the range of symbols the poet uses.
Under the media spotlight or not, the waters he sang about are still here, perhaps more rebellious than ever with their record-breaking droughts and floods. All this fury, however, is silenced in the poems Alcides did not write.
He passed away in 2003, leaving 5 children.
Son of Sjukiel Werk and Alcides Gomes de Mattos. As a boy, he lost his mother to malaria.
A career employee of the DCT (later split into ECT and DENTEL).
He worked as a telegraph operator in Tocantins, lived in Belém, and in 1954, at the age of 20, he moved to Amazonas, initially settling in Manaus, but later moving to the Middle Amazonas (Maués, Nhamundá, and surrounding areas), as a career employee of DENTEL, from which he retired.
Back in Manaus, he launched Da Noite do Rio in '74, whose poems later became part of Trilha D’água, launched in 1980, and reissued (with additions) in '82, '85, and '94.
He also worked at the Official Press, where he edited the Suplemento Literário Amazonas for two years.
The poet passed away in Manaus on November 13, 2003.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ↑
A poet with an Amazonian identity, forged through living in the interior, a result of his adventures along the upper rivers, the paranás, the distant lakes, drawing from aboriginal culture.
He was always involved in cultural issues and exalted the nature and beauty of Manaus in his poems and songs.
He possessed excellent command of grammar and dedicated himself with great pleasure to the work of editing books, one of his most important activities.
Alcides Werk will always be the poet of the waters. While some poets born in Amazonas migrated to other Brazilian states, he took the opposite route. He left his homeland, Mato Grosso do Sul, arriving in Amazonas in 1954, when he was just 20 years old, where he remained until his death.
Despite being intimately and passionately identified with the Amazonian region, Werk does not allow himself to be carried away by the easy play of colors. The chiaroscuro of his poetry has nuances that only the most contemplative and patient gaze can perceive. Considering only the day/night aspect, one observes the range of symbols the poet uses.
Under the media spotlight or not, the waters he sang about are still here, perhaps more rebellious than ever with their record-breaking droughts and floods. All this fury, however, is silenced in the poems Alcides did not write.
He passed away in 2003, leaving 5 children.
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