The first part of “Aquário” is titled “Head and Tail”. This is what the word “capicua” means, something that is read the same way from head to tail and vice versa. Ana (a capicua) is the first name of the rapper (and much more) who in this book combines many of the chronicles she wrote for Visão magazine (between 2015 and 2021) with other texts, poems or unpublished song lyrics.

Capicua is Ana Matos Fernandes, who in “Aquário” writes in a personal and political, artistic and socially conscious way, based on memory, but also focused on the present, on the life she leads in music and on motherhood that ( also) shapes her life This week, the book is presented in Lisbon (this Tuesday 4, Casa Independente, with Mariana Cabral —Bumba na Fofinha— and Joana von Bonhorst) and in Porto (this Wednesday 5, with Sara Barros Leitão and Gabriela do Amaral, at Casa Andresen, at 4 p.m.). The Observer reveals here three excerpts, three texts that are based on as many experiences.

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