

Done with Stupidity
Done with Stupidity by Ana Paula Arendt* BOOK REVIEW – I believe my reader deserves a few words about Ion Parreah’s most recent book, “How Shakespeare Can Save the World: a Survival Guide Against the Apocalypse of Stupidity”. Ion Parreah is a globally acclaimed author, an experienced political actor across several countries in Africa, Oceania, the Balkans, and South America, who chose to write this new book under a pseudonym. He has experienced systems of government that work


Um basta à estupidez
Um basta à estupidez por Ana Paula Arendt* RESENHA DE LIVRO – Penso que o meu leitor merece algumas palavras sobre o livro mais recente de Ion Parreah, “ How Shakespeare Can Save the World: a Survival Guide Against the Apocalypse of Stupidity ” (em português: “Como Shakespeare Pode Salvar o Mundo: Um Guia de Sobrevivência Contra o Apocalipse da Estupidez”). Ion Parreah é um autor aclamado mundialmente, político experiente em diversos países na África, na Oceania, nos Bálcãs e


The Poetry and the Poet
Poetry and the Poet Ana Paula Arendt Poetry is not for the poet like water around the fish— unnoticed and transparent, busy making more seafood. Poetry and the poet are more like lovers who meet, from time to time, at a party— joyous, elegant, and lavish in their distance. All the details at the hem of the dress, bare shoulders, sparkling jewels drawing out the gleam in the eyes… His glance of interest— and then Poetry, as a lady, becomes a sudden rush of blood in the beating


Faith in You
Faith in You Ana Paula Arendt I have faith that things lean toward repair— in the nightingale’s words, in the sea’s salt, in the patient grammar of the breeze, that the stones remember. Most would prefer instead belief in the argument of weapons— safety measured in explosions, as if each dispute did not hasten a clearer ruin: disaffection, and death. Man eats man, woman eats woman— violence learning its own appetite. And yet I have faith: above the thin crust our steps frac




