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    Poems That Help Me Feel Alive
    Poems That Help Me Feel Alive
    Poems That Help Me Feel Alive
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    Poems That Help Me Feel Alive

    By Leide Moreira

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    POEMS THAT HELP ME FEEL ALIVE is Leide Moreira’s second book. Leide is a special kind of poet who constructs her poems through the movement of her eyeballs. The printed version of this book was released November 2008 in the Jornal Folha de São Paulo Auditorium with the author’s presence who, due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis attended lying on a gurney which was transported by an ICU ambulance and accompanying crew.
    Leide Moreira can move only her eyeballs and through them constructs moving and remarkable poetry.

    POEMS THAT HELP ME FEEL ALIVE contains 60 poems which Leide Moreira wrote with her eyeball movement and a Visual Chart handled by her aides.

    Her poems allow for her to reflect on life and represent a unique and pioneering manner in which to participate, exercise her citizenry and make a contribution to society and social inclusion.
    Besides the quality of the poems she constructs, Leide’s story coupled with her attitude in face of life represent extreme examples of overcoming one’s limitations, motivating and generating inspiration and has had a relevant social impact. As stated by congresswoman Mara Gabrilli “... independent of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, her poems are much more far-reaching, they are able to help people with problems as different as deafness to those with problems in their marriage.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 7, 2013
    ISBN9781483507118
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      Poems That Help Me Feel Alive - Leide Moreira

      Index

      Front Page

      Copyright Page

      Introduction

      Presentation, by Luciano Pires

      Ample Production, by Mara Gabrilli

      Biography

      Communication

      Dedication

      60 Years

      Photograph album

      Happiness

      Loving is worthwhile

      My window

      Love

      Love is a flower

      Hail Mary

      Hummingbird

      Rag doll

      Little Red Riding Hood

      Fairy city

      Day by day

      Dilemma

      E-mail

      Fantasy

      Philosophy

      Gossip

      Winter

      John and Mary

      Moon

      Life’s road

      My heart

      My garden

      My time

      My days

      My house

      My moon

      My living room

      My week

      My life

      Christmas 2007

      Moonlit sky

      Prayer

      Autumn and winter

      The rover

      Sins

      Presents

      Spring

      First love

      Searching

      Proposal

      Who you are

      Who I am

      Robot

      Sabrina

      Fruit salad

      Saint John

      Yearning

      If

      To be or not to be

      Dream

      Dream II

      I Love you I Love you

      Gloom

      Paths of life

      Your absence

      Summer

      Traveler

      Sixty years

      Acknowledgment

      Author’s contacts

      Poems that help me feel alive

      1st edition - 2013

      Leide Moreira

      Copyright Page

      Poems – Leide Moreira

      My house, co-authored by Vânia de Castro and Lélia Quereza Crozara

      My living room and Autumn and Winter, co-authored by Vânia de Castro

      Executive producer – Leide Jacob

      Drawings – Gabriel Moreira Jacob

      Translation – Charles Holmquist

      English revision – Marina R. S. Andréa

      Produced by – Luciano Pires / Mara Gabrilli

      Photo – Vania Toledo

      Editorial Coordination – Alpe Schneider

      Graphic Project – Denize de Moura Velloso

      Support – ABrELA - Associação Brasileira de Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica

      http://www.abrela.org.br/

      © Copyright – 2013 – Leide Moreira

      www.leidemoreira.com.br

      All rights reserved. Any and all reproduction of this edition by any means or forms, be it electronic, mechanical, facsimile, recorded or any other means of reproduction which comes into existence in the future, is prohibited without the express permission of

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