Official website of the poet and composer
Vinicius de Moraes (1913-1980)

Os Afrossambas
50 poemas macabros
Most often remembered for his love verses, Vinicius de Moraes has always cultivated an appreciation for the ugly and the grotesque. Not that one characteristic excludes the other – in his poetry, the beautiful and the morbid go hand in hand. These 50 macabre poems present to the reader a facet that marks the poet's entire production, but has rarely been highlighted as one of the main attributes of your work.
The Vinicius de Moraes Digital Collection brings together digital reproductions of original handwritten and typed documents from the poet's personal collection, donated to the Archive-Museum of Brazilian Literature of the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro. Access: acervo.viniciusdemoraes.com.br