The poet Jurandyr Bezerra, born in Belém do Pará in 1928 and living in Rio de Janeiro from 1960
until his death in 2012, published only one book, Os limites do pássaro, in 1993. Jurandyr is the least
known among modern poets of the Pará that consolidated works throughout the second half of the
twentieth century. Still, it received the attention of readers such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade and
Antônio Olinto who, in 1958, awarded him. In the paraense archive, eight sets of unpublished poems
remained – As águas de Mara, A lâmina convexa, Configurações, Superfície, O rio da minha aldeia,
O signo transverso, A rosa de Jericó e outras notícias da morte e Sombra submersa: recordações da
Amazônia – manuscripts distinguishing the paths of the creative process. This paper presents results of
the process of classification and organization of manuscripts and poem analysis, designed to show the
relevance of unpublished poetry by a significant Brazilian poet of the twentieth century, practically
unknown
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