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GALVÃO (Henrique). GRADES Serradas. Rio de Janeiro. [c. 1961]. - GALVÃO (Henrique) GRADES Serradas . Ensaios de poesia aplicada. Nem prosa, nem verso. O verbo das horas mortas. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Editora Germinal, [c. 1961]. 130, [2] pp.; 190 mm. First edition. *Grades Serradas* brings together prose poems that the author calls ”applied poetry, ” ”neither prose nor verse, ” written during his captivity. In the introductory note, Galvão states that the work ”erupted like a prison illness” while he was imprisoned by the Salazar regime, whom he refers to as ”the kind rustic of Santa Comba.” Henrique Galvão (Barreiro, 1895 - São Paulo, 1970), a military man and writer awarded the Colonial Literature Prize, broke with the Estado Novo regime in the 1950s, was imprisoned in 1952 and escaped in 1959. In January 1961, he led the hijacking of the passenger ship Santa Maria, after which he went into exile in Brazil, where this work was published by Livraria Editora Germinal of Rio de Janeiro. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate