Antônio de Castro Alves, the great Brazilian poet and abolitionist, died in 1871 at the age of 24. "Os Anjos da Meia Noite" is from his last book, Espumas Flutuantes (Drifting Froth), which the author called "a fantastic prism of fate or rapture" and "a weird splitting of the pulse of ruin." His complete works have not been translated into English.

 

EPR #6:
Os Anjos da Meia Noite: Photographias (Adaptation by Jascha Hoffman)