A ALEX POLARI DE ALVERGA

Abstract

Stuck in Rio de Janeiro in 1971 by direct involvement in guerrilla movements, smuggling (to the outside!) Prison where he passed the poems he wrote, denouncing the horrors in prison. Several of them, at the time, published by Amnesty International and appreciated by European academic circles and Latin American engaged in defending human rights. His verses were collected in this scars books (1975) and prisoner of Dressing Room (1980). With the promulgation of the Amnesty Law (1979), has enjoyed since 1980 "this weird right to come and go / without taking a stick" - as he will have versou. He currently serves as the leader of communities clustered around the rituals of the Santo Daime.