During the old regime, hundreds of political prisoners were deported to the Azores, taking with them their books and their forbidden ideas from the continent. These people acted as a cog in a political discussion and debate that gradually took place between islands. Prefácio para um Arquipélago revisits this chapter of history from the official documentation and intervention poetry, produced clandestinely during this period in the country. This time is analyzed in the Azores from the literature of resistance (up to 1974) that arrived there through the deportees, the mail, or that was written there, constituting libraries in the present. In contrast to these contents, documentation is revealed about the experience of permanent vigilance to which these individuals were subject. Based on the power of the written word, in times where freedom was clandestine, work unearths national history, through the local. The artist recovers episodes of oppression from the past speech, to observe its repercussions in the present and to question how the contemporary political constructions introduce the new domains of freedom and of expression. Maria Trabulo develops a work that connects the bell tower of the building of Ponta Delgada Municipality to a set of other spaces of the city. The tower hosts reading sessions open to the public that, broadcast on the radio, propagate veiled texts in the past. The tower becomes a place of encounter, freedom and diffusion that, by the presented artistic actions and objects, reverses its power of watchfulness and control. Turning to something that exalts the memory and the poetry of a previously marginalized culture, it also indicates some of the places that welcomed the writing, printing, and diffusion of new ideas. Ideas that the artist rescues for the present, also, in posters and pamphlets with phrases, poems or excerpts of original publications, pasted in the walls of the city. These elements mark the places that the tower indicates, repositioning them as present spaces of meeting and reading, creating a network of memory and discussion. Unexpectedly, Ponta Delgada receives the memory of the transgression, equating a counterculture and its relationship with society. All the actions carried out in the tower and on the streets embody a unified work that challenges individuals, history, and the city, where the relevance of the word as resistance strengthens a common dialogue.