Book, Hold Me or I'll Have a Heart attack[LS]

In 1970, Waly Salomão was imprisoned in Carandiru for carrying, in the words of the poet himself, “a joint”, and there he began to write his first book, Me segura qu’eu vou dar um troço, published two years later. Between prose, poetry, and essay, this visceral and revolutionary work became decisive for the counterculture movement that flourished in Brazil in that decade, having inspired the critical appreciation of readers such as Antonio Candido, Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, and Antonio Cicero. Included in Poesia total, this contemporary classic capable of knocking out the reader with its density and power returns to bookstores in its standalone form, with an unpublished chronology by the author.