Guilherme Dearo rescues old photographs discovered in secondhand bookstores and creates small poems of memory around them, conjecturing the past and our own history. Taken between the 1920s and 1960s by amateur and anonymous photographers, the portraits capture, in addition to the customs of an era, nuances of the human soul. Combined with Guilherme's imagination, the images rescued here circulate again in the light of day and have the gift of bringing grace and lightness to those who find them.

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Guilherme Dearo unites in *Um lugar qualquer* (Anywhere) two art forms – photography and poetry – that share something very special: revelation. An image reveals to us "the decisive moment," as Cartier-Bresson called it, frozen in time. A poem reveals a new meaning related to language, something inaugural. Together, they give us a collection of photo-poems that overflow with humanity in their everyday gestures, in children's games, groups of friends, or arranged poses. The poems recreate the images and vice versa. With the book in hand, we feel the "crushing of time," as Roland Barthes called it, when past (the moment the photo was taken) and present (when it is being observed) confront and merge. And we can add, perhaps, a future. "Dreaming of one's own future," as one of Dearo's verses says, since the author, with the poem, imagines something that will endure in the hands of a future generation or in the reader's memory. Starting always from a concrete reality (something that is usually a solid foundation for good poems), in a humorous and gentle tone, Dearo recreates, through precise work with language, images lost in antique fairs that can no longer be accurately contextualized. But they can, indeed – hence the joy this book gives us – be paired with and generate something new with these short and beautiful poems. - Michaela Schmaedel