Let's buy a poet - Avoncho Kroosh

How to present, politely, a society besieged inside a financial space where material values rise above everything to become the essence of human relationships? A burning question answered by the Portuguese novelist Afonso Cruz with a humorous suggestion consisting of buying poets as one would buy any other commodity from shops. A 12-year-old girl asked her parents to buy a poet, like other families that find in animals (cats and dogs...) affection at home, firstly because it does not cost much financially, and secondly because it does not leave dirt like painters and sculptors. With this idea, which seems to us sarcastic and strange, the author exposes an entire society, a society that measures people by numbers and scales, and determines human relationships by their usefulness, and everything that falls outside that system is invalid. Is there a place for poets in such a society? Has the era of poetry ended, and is it time to bid farewell to the poem to preserve its humanity and restore what has been displaced under many names: modernity, progress, efficiency, profit...? That is what this novel is about. Let's buy a poet - Afonso Cruz