SOLANGE_Uma conversa de cabeleireiro

Solange is waiting for us at a neighborhood hairdresser's.
Solange doesn't mince her words and she doesn't need
no one to let her go.
Unexpectedly she reveals herself to be a poetry lover
and a politicized voice.
What is there in common between Solange's
and that of the poet?
Making the here and now shine.
The working in a clandestine redoubt.
Giving public form to privacy without invading it.
The waiting for a revolution that will make the times
the times to come.
Listening to a thousand dilemmas and catharsis, almost secrets
and almost revelations.
Caring for a fraction of the body, opening
the floodgate of many other souls.
Solange makes poetry her weapon
and her lens through which to see the world.
Solange finds in poetry the strength to affirm herself,
the right to contradict herself.
Solange finds in the words of women
Portuguese and Brazilian women poets a reason to
to deepen the abyss of being a woman.
Solange finds in spoken poetry the unheard energy
of the word in search of its addressee.