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Beneath the harvest sun and the cicada song, Mónica Martins Nunes builds a touching portrait of Serra de Serpa, an arid region in the south of Portugal affected by rural exodus. The poems sung by the shepherds and market traders resonate like the last gesture of a human landscape which resists sinking into oblivion.

• poetry
• farming
• land struggle
• oral tradition
• nature and people
• rural exodus
• alentejo
• agrosilvopastoral system