Mystical Rose

Adelia Prado was ''discovered'' when she was nearly 40 by Brazil''s foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her ''phenomenal'' poems, launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in the provincial backwater of Minas Gerais. Psychiatrists in droves made the pilgrimage to Divinópolis to delve into the psy...