Glauco Mattoso
Glauco Mattoso, in 2004
Born	Pedro José Ferreira da Silva (1948-06-29)29 June 1948 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation(s)	Poet, writer, ficcionist, novelist, essayist, translator, songwriter

Pedro José Ferreira da Silva (São Paulo, 29 June 1951), known as Glauco Mattoso, is a poet, writer, novelist, essayist, translator and songwriter from Brazil.^[1]

Career

In the 1970s, he participated in the cultural resistance to the military dictatorship through the group of Poesia Marginal. In addition to editing the poetic-pamphlet fanzine Jornal Dobrabil, he collaborated in several alternative press periodicals, such as the gay tabloid Lampião and the humorous newspaper O Pasquim.^[2]

In the 1980s, he published works in magazines such as Chiclete com Banana, Tralha, Mil Perigos, SomTrês, Top Rock, Status e Around, essays and literary criticism in Jornal da Tarde, as well as several volumes of poetry and prose. In 1982, he edited the Dedo Mingo magazine as a supplement to the Jornal Dobrabil.^[3] With his pornographic poetry, he joined the Porn Art Movement.^[4]

In the 1990s, glaucoma cost him his vision. He left behind his graphics work (comic strip and concrete poetry) to dedicate himself to song lyrics and to phonographic production.^[5] In 1999, with Jorge Schwartz, he won the Jabuti Prize for his translation of the inaugural work of Jorge Luis Borges, Fervor de Buenos Aires.^[6]

In 2015, Glauco Mattoso won the third place in the Oceanos Prize with the work "The First History of the World and Saccola de Feira"^[7]

Books

• Memórias de um Pueteiro (1982)
• Línguas na Papa (1982)
• O Calvário dos Carecas: História do Trote Estudantil (1985)
• Rockabillyrics (1988)
• Limeiriques & Outros Debiques Glauquianos (1989)
• Haicais Paulistanos (1992)
• Galeria Alegria (2002)
• O Glosador Motejoso (2003)
• Animalesca Escolha (2004)
• Pegadas Noturnas: Dissonetos Barrockistas (2004)
• Poética na Política (2004)
• Poesia Digesta: 1974-2004 (2004)
• A Planta da Donzela (2005)
• A Aranha Punk (2007)
• A Letra da Ley (2008)
• O Cancioneiro Carioca e Brasileiro (2008)
• Contos Hediondos (2009)
• Cinco Ciclos e Meio Século (2009)
• Tripé do Tripúdio e Outros Contos Hediondos (2011)
• Raymundo Curupyra, O Caypora: Romance Lyrico (2012)
• Cautos Causos (2012)
• Outros Cautos Causos (2012)
• Sacola de Feira (2014)
• Poesia Vaginal: Cem Sonnettos Sacanas (2015)
• Curso de Refeologia (2018)

References

External links

• Film for Blind Poet
• Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
• Perhappiness: The Art of Compromise in translating poetry or: 'steering betwixt two extremes'