More on Azulao:

• There’s a video clip of his 1999 People’s Poetry Gathering performance at the PPG Web site.

Further reading on Cordel literature:

• Maria-Brazil Brazilian culture site has a page on cordel with photographs.
  
  
• “The Greatest Poet That God Creole,” Arnoldo Xavier’s survey of black Cordel literature, appeared in the special African Brazilian Literature issue of Callaloo.
  
  

• Compare prices  to buy the book • Stories on a String

  If you want to own the book on cordel, order Candace Slater’s Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, paperback reprint 1990). It’s out of print, but you can usually find used copies for sale at Amazon.com (see the link on the right).

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