Augusto dos Anjos is one of the most original and popular Brazilian poets. His work, however, consists of only one book. "Eu" was published during the author's lifetime; other poems, published in periodicals or unpublished, were collected after his death and added to the volume organized by the author, then renamed "Eu e Outras Poesias". Acclaimed by the public and critics, his work was repudiated by many in his time, and still causes strangeness, due to the mixture of colloquial and scientific vocabulary, the excessively macabre and pessimistic themes, the systematic exaggeration in language and in the treatment of the themes. Despite the controversies surrounding his work, many of his verses have become popular, such as "a vulture landed on my fate", "the hand that caresses is the same that stones" and others.