“Seven Faces is well written, informed, and disciplined in navigating its way through a vast topic. This analytic work constantly balances assertions with demonstrative examples.” - Piers Armstrong , Latin American Research Review
“Clearly written and cogently argued. Seven Faces should be on the bookshelf of everyone who wants to know the complete story behind contemporary Brazilian music, culture, and poetry.” - Earl E. Fitz , Review of Latin American Literature
“Perrone historicizes and contextualizes the phases, movements, and individual cases of Brazilian poetry, placing each new tendency and trend within Brazilian verse tradition and, at times, within an international perspective. His study displays breadth of scholarly endeavor, clarity of thinking, theoretical sophistication, extensive research, compelling argumentation, and lucid analyses of the aesthetic accomplishments and problems of the poetic production of five decades of poetry in Brazil. . . Perrone’s overall evaluation of movements and trends, and his readings of poems, are elegantly written, insightful and highly useful to anyone learning about, or teaching, Brazilian poetry.” - Maria José Somerlate Barbosa , Luso-Brazilian Review
“No other study on the subject has the scope, the breadth, or the analytical sophistication of Perrone’s. Seven Faces is a rare commodity and makes a major contribution to the field, especially in its reevaluation of the poetic vanguards of the 1950s through the 1980s.” - Randal Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles
“This work fills an important part of a lamentable gap in Latin American studies in the United States. Perrone’s work forms a marvelous bridge between modernism and the contemporary Brazilian scene.” - Santiago Colás, University of Michigan
