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Our Imaginary Friends eBook Scott Bentley Talita Suassuna

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Scott Bentley and Talita Suassuna began this collaboration - the first in a series of books for children and adults alike - when the two became neighbors in Oakland, California. Scott is a poet and composition professor at CSU East Bay. Talita is an artist and graphic designer and native of Brazil who grew up on the same street in São Paulo as Scott’s wife, Marta. (Though they lived only doors apart, the two did not know one another as children.)

Then, as adults, when the two once again had the grand fortune of becoming neighbors, it was at that point that Bentley and Suassuna, both parents of small children, set out to make a book that challenges the common assumption that children, especially children of our contemporary age, are too innocent to understand poetry, especially a poetry about the socially complex world in which we live. The two also set out to construct a book that celebrates the visual idioms of Brazil’s folk culture through a lens of postmodern America. This book, at once humorous, raw and breathtaking, is a true collaboration, for the poems come to life only with the accompanying illustrations and the illustrations arise fiery out of the poems. As readers shall clearly see, neither exists complete without the other

The authors will donate 10% of the proceedings from the book sales to the Brazilian charity organization São Martinho (http//www.saomartinho.org.br) which assists abandoned street kids in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.