INTRODUCTION

Cora Coralina made her connection to the world a reason to be poetized. And what would be more susceptible to be poetized than our own life? Cora celebrates this existential process finding the privileges of living a hard life. Her dignity grows among the outcasts, humble people, the ones from whom their honor had been taken. This human conscience is the fuel of her poetic strength that touches us with simplicity, revealing the prosaic aspects, the rustic inside of us even nowadays. With this sparkling human side, which is so faded currently, we are still able to identify ourselves.

Cora went deeper into many voices, many lives. She was born Aninha (Little Ana) and it was with this name that she poetically sketched her memories. The universe of characters around her seems to carry the smell of the country-side, a so distant rural place. Still, this country-side in Brazil looks familiar to us. The childhood´s machination, the nuances of a parental environment, the traps of sociability. It all fits as a start to represent a life that seems limited. Nevertheless, it is a life made and transformed into a special, unique event.