Character, poetics, storytelling, and imagination guide my work as a literary artist. My work is aesthetically-driven, inspired by romantic and fantastic literatures, and presents the fruit of years of formal and informal study, practice, and reflection.
Fiction
The Expatriate and the Exile (A Songwriter’s Story)
The Man in the Street (A Photographer’s Story)
Pizza Bathroom, Buenos Aires (A Server’s Story)
Theatre
The Art of Painting No. 51 (A Painter’s Story)
The Ostrakismos (A Poet’s Story)
Translation
The Portuguese Language – Olavo Bilac
Brazilian Music – Olavo Bilac
Poetry
(Super Nova) Arte Poética (in progress)
Writing That Has Inspired My Work
i six nonlectures—ee cummings
The Pillowman—Martin McDonagh
The Endarkenment—Jeffrey McDaniels
Thomas the Obscure—Maurice Blanchot
The Unbearable Lightness of Being—Milan Kundera
Aminadab or the Fantastic Considered as Language—Jean-Paul Sartre
Six Characters in Search of an Author—Luigi Pirandello
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World—Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Don Sandalio, Jugador de Ajedrez—Miguel de Unamuno
The Royal Game—Stefan Zweig
The Black Monk—Anton Chekhov
God of Carnage—Yasmina Reza
The Other Side—Alfred Kubin
The Aeronaut—Cecília Meireles
Shadows—DH Lawrence
L’art—Théophile Gautier
The Enchanted—Jean Giraudoux
The Sandman—E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Plumed Serpent—DH Lawrence
Questions of Travel—Elizabeth Bishop
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller—Italo Calvino
An Apprentice or the Book of Pleasures—Clarice Lispector
The Life of the Imagination—Nadine Gordimer
A Lyrical Poet—Eça de Queiroz
In the Ardent Darkness—Antonio Buero Vallejo
The Hollow—’Pemi Aguda
Youth—Pablo Neruda
The Waves—Olavo Bilac
La Vita Nuova—Dante Alighieri
Dear Elizabeth—Sarah Ruhl
Harrison Bergeron—Kurt Vonnegut
An Ideal Husband—Oscar Wilde
Amphion—Paul Valéry
Invitation to a Beheading—Vladimir Nabokov
When Greek Meets Greek—Graham Greene
The Tale of the Unknown Island—José Saramago
Skeletons—Deborah Landau
As Mulheres Ocas—Vinicius de Moraes
In the Embrace of the Exiguous Light (Para Que Esse Autor Regresse)—Nuno Júdice
The Numbered—Elias Canetti
An Obscure Man—Marguerite Yourcenar
The Blood of the Walsungs—Thomas Mann
In the Beginning We Spoke Nothing—Jay Kophy
Ocean of Earth—Guillaume Apollinaire
The Brothers Karamazov—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tradition and the Individual Talent—T.S. Eliot
Alice in Wonderland—Lewis Carroll
The Artist and his Time—Albert Camus
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius—Jorge Luis Borges
Thus Spoke Zarathustra—Friedrich Nietzsche
