«Roturas e Ligamentos» [fractures and ligaments], the naked book, is in its essence two books. Bone and skin. Words and images. It can be read as an articulated itinerary between poetry and illustration, some connections are apparent, others more profound and only appear when the reader allows itself to get lost and deny a sequential structure. This way this book presents itself as a poem, allowing order for every individual chaos and allowing it to reconnect names, reorganize verbs, recombine words, letters and syllables, uncovering a net of new meanings.
 
This book is paperback, printed in one pantone color on 150g Antalis Print Speed paper, (two on the cover). 
The tinted edge symbolizes de fracture of the body when separating the two parts.
The exposed binding allows a complete spread of the book pages so the reader can combine any poem with any illustration through an endless exploratory reading process. Left sided book is solely made of texts and has no images (except the cover), right side of book is only made of drawings, (even the bar code was cut to fit this rule).
 
The font Amor, by František Štorm (Storm), combines delicate poetry by Rita Taborda Duarte with whimsical illustrations of André da Loba.
 
It's an edition of 500, (all numbered), published by Abysmo.

Poems by Rita Taborda Duarte
Illustrations by André da Loba