RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 40
February 2004

 
PART XVII:
Poetry

 

See also items 12, 14, 102, 113, 245, 252, 253, 254, 255, and 263.
168. AMARAL, Domingos Monteiro d'Albuquerque. A peidologia. Preface by Fernanda Frazão. Lisbon: Apenas, 2003. Ora e Outrora, 6. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with "cordel." 15 pp. One of 100 copies. ISBN: 972-8777-32-9. $8.00
 

169. BINGRE, Francisco Joaquim (1763-1856). Obras de Francisco Joaquim Bingre. Vanda Anastácio, ed. 5 vols. Porto: Lello, 2000-2003. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII, 55, 65, 78, 95 & 125. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 1 color plate, lxxviii, 330 pp.; xlix, 394 pp., (1 l.); 1 plate, xxxvii, 568 pp., (1 l.); 1 color plate, liii, 527 pp.; xxviii, 552 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-48-1797-0; 972-48-1805-5; 972-48-1814-4; 972-48-1826-8; 972-48-1834-9. 5 vols. $230.00

With full critical apparatus. On Bingre, one of the founders of the Nova Arcadia, see Alvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 64.
 

170. BONAVENA, E., pseud. [i.e. Nelson Pestana, b. Luanda, 1955]. Os limites da luz. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2003. Escritores dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, 33. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 77 pp., (2 ll. adv., 1 l. colophon). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1272-1. $20.00

 
171. CARLOS, Luís Adriano, ed. Arvore: folhas de poesia. Edição fac-similada. Introdução e índice de Luís Adriano Carlos. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Literatura, 89. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. xviii, (2), 264 pp., 75, xix-xl pp. ISBN: 972-610-682-6. $45.00

Facsimile edition, with interesting material added, of this important review of poetry published in four numbers from October 1951 to the Spring of 1953. Literary directors were António Luís Moita, António Ramos Rosa, José Terra, Luís Amaro, and Raul de Carvalho. In the final number they were joined by Egito Gonçalves. Contributors included Eduardo Lourenço, António Ramos Rosa, Adolfo Casais Monteiro, Raul de Carvalho, Jorge de Sena, Egito Gonçalves, David Morão-Ferreira, Lima de Freitas, Albano Martins, Vergílio Ferreira, Rogério Fernandes, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Ilse Losa, Eugénio de Andrade, Cabral de Nascimento, Fernando Guimarães, Natércia Freire, Fernando Lanhas, Luísa Dacosta, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Jorge de Lima, and others. Among the foreign authors whose works were translated or reviewed were Rainer Maria Rilke, René Char, Marcel Thiry, Henri Michaux, Frederico García Lorca, and W.H. Auden. It is thought that the translation of poems by Paul Eluard, a communist writer whose death had recently been noted in the press, as well as texts by García Lorca (a writer "marcado" by the regime), Rafael Alberti, and Pablo Neruda, were decisive in causing the intervention of the authorities. On 17 April 1953 the PIDE acted, and in the words of João Gaspar Simões, what was to be the final issue of Arvore "Foi votada à fúria do lenhador." See Daniel Pires, Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX, vol. II (1941-1974), tomo 1, pp. 59-65.

 
172. CARVALHO, Gil de. Religiões da Lusitânia (oito poemas). Lisbon: Alexandria, 2003. Sm. 8°, plain black wrps. with yellow printed label tipped on to front cover. 14 pp., (1 l.). One of 200 numbered copies. ISBN: 972-8836-02-3. $15.00

The author has published seven previous books.

 
173. CASTRO, Jorge. Sopa de pedras. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Apenas, 2003. A Mão de Respigar, 6. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with "cordel." 23, (1) pp. One of 100 copies. ISBN: 972-8777-13-2. $8.00

 
174. CRUZ E SILVA, António Dinis da. Obras de António Dinis da Cruz e Silva. Introdução, fixação de texto e notas de Maria Luísa Malaquias Urbano. Volume I. Lisbon: Colibri, 2000. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII, 63. Lge. 8°,original illustrated wrappers. 477 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-772-131-2. Volume I. $45.00

 
175. CRUZ E SILVA, António Dinis da. Obras de António Dinis da Cruz e Silva. Introdução, fixação de texto e notas de Maria Luísa Malaquias Urbano. Volume II. Lisbon: Colibri, 2001. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII, 92. Lge. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 499 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-772-183-4. Volume II. $50.00
 

176. CRUZ E SILVA, António Dinis da. Obras de António Dinis da Cruz e Silva. Introdução, fixação de texto e notas de Maria Luísa Malaquias Urbano. Volume III. Lisbon: Colibri, 2003. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII, 130. Lge. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 461 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-772-408-6. Volume III. $50.00

With this third volume, these Obras appear to be complete.

 
177. GARIZIO, D.B. O pintelho da Maltrapilha. Lisbon: Apenas, 2003. Literatralhas NOBELizáveis, 8. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with "cordel." 15, (1) pp. One of 100 copies. ISBN: 972-8777-40-X. $8.00
 

178. GIRÃO, Fernando. Uma antologia híbrida. Lisbon: Marques Augusto, 2003. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 151 pp., (3 ll.), illus. (some illus. in color); CD-ROM disk tipped in. ISBN: 972-8748-11-6. $50.00
 

179. GOMES, Tiago. Caixa negra de avião desviado por ataque terrorista. Lisbon: Edições Vem Aí Miséria, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 54 pp., (1 l.), 1 quadruple page folding plate. ISBN: none. $15.00

The author has served as editor of the magazine of avant-garde poetry, design, and photography Biblia.

 
180. GOMES, Tiago and Miguel Carrilho. Homem vago em cinzento. Lisbon: Edições Vem Aí Miséria, 1995. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. (16 ll.), profusely illus. ISBN: none. $12.00

Poems by Gomes; photographs by Carrilho.

 
181. LEAL, Leonilde. Pausa sobre a água, poema. Lisbon: Escritor, 2003. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 99, (3) pp., 1 color plate. ISBN: 972-8590-69-5. $19.00

The author has published four novels, seven volumes of short stories, an imaginary diary, and five volumes of poetry, one of which, Na lassidão do sono, was awarded the Prémio Rual de Carvalho.

 
182. MATIAS, Carlos. Fragmentos de Maria Lúcia. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2003. Biblioteca "uma existência de papel," 43. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 47 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 989-552-032-8. $16.00

The author was born in Lisbon in 1960. He has published three previous books.

 
183. MOURA, Vasco Graça, ed. 366 Poemas que falam de amor. Lisbon: Quetzal, 2003. Colecção Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 522 pp. ISBN: 972-564-583-9. $40.00

 
184. NAMORADO, Rui. Nenhum lugar e sempre. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2003. Biblioteca "uma existência de papel," 46 [the number 43 appears in error on both the front and back covers]. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 92 pp., (6 ll.). ISBN: 989-552-034-4. $22.00

The author, who has four previous volumes of poetry to his credit, at the time this volume appeared was a professor in the Faculdade de Economia at Coimbra University. He had been a student activist in the 1960s, and Socialist deputy to the Assembleia da República from 1995 to 1999.

 
185. NUNES CARREIRA, José, ed. Cantigas de Amor do Oriente antigo: estudo e antologia. Lisbon: Cosmos, 1999. Orientalia Lusitana, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 266 pp. ISBN: 9772-762-174-0. $40.00

 
186. PESSANHA, Camilo. Clepsidra e outros poemas. Introdução critico-bibliográfica por João de Castro Osório. Lisbon: Atica, (1969). 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 551 pp., (1 l.). $75.00

Third edition. Aside from the poems in the second edition, this one contains about 40 pages of poems that did not appear earlier, plus a lengthy essay by João de Castro Osório (pp. 331-465) and many notes and variant readings.

 
187. PINA MARTINS, José Vitorino de. Galileo Galilei aos seus inquisidores. Lisbon: Biblioteca de Estudos Humanisticos [i.e. the author], 1996. Folio (33 x 24.4 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 18 pp., (3 ll.). One of 99 copies; 33 of which are numbered 1 through 33, another 33 of which are numbered I to XXXIII, 24 of which are lettered A through Z, and 9 more intended as gifts; all signed by the author. To our knowledge, there is no substantive difference between these three runs. ISBN: none. $75.00

Pages 9-14 contain a poem by Pina Martins about Galileo. In addition to the author's signature, this copy, Exemplar NÚMERO 3, contains a presentation inscription from the author to his friend Dr. Artur Anselmo, dated 2.III.97.

 
188. PORTO, Ana. Re-ciclo. Lisbon: Apenas, 2003. Literatralhas NOBELizáveis, 7. 8°, original printed wrappers. with "cordel." 16 pp. One of 100 copies. ISBN: 972-8777-34-5. $8.00

 
189. PRADO, Adélia. Com licença poética, antologia. Selecção e prefácio de Abel Barros Baptista. Lisbon: Cotovia, 2003. 8°, original illustrated wrappers with d.j. xvii, 125, (1) pp., frontisport. included in pagination. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-795-079-5. $25.00

The author was born in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais in 1935. She has written a number of volumes of poetry, and has been translated into English.

 
190. RODRIGUES LOBO, Francisco. A primavera. Maria Lúcilia Gonçalves Pires, ed. Lisbon: Vega, 2003. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVII, 111. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 352 pp. ISBN: 972-699-722-4. $45.00

FIRST PORTUGUESE PASTORAL NOVEL. Based on the 1608 second edition, published during the life of the author, with his additions and corrections. The third edition, the last to appear during the author's lifetime, published in 1619, while claiming to have been "de novo emendada e acresentada," is actually a corrupted version of the second edition, with numerous typographical errors. The editor's introduction occupies pp. 7-37.

Rodrigues Lobo was a champion of the Portuguese language who had a significant impact on the formation of the baroque style throughout the Iberian Peninsula. "Entre os discípulos de Camões, mas distinguindo-se . . . . justifica-se pela posição central que ocupa na ficção bucólica maneirista, embora não posamos deixar de o ter em mente como teorizador ou preceptista da literatura, e ainda como poeta lírico." - Saraiva & Lopes, Históra da Literatura Portuguesa (9th ed.) p. 427. Forjaz de Sampaio called him the greatest Portuguese bucolic poet. The fame of this important author "rests chiefly on his three pastoral works of mingled prose and verse: A Primavera (1601) and its second and third parts O Pastor Peregrino (1608) and O Desenganado (1614). . . . Look into them where you will, beautiful descriptions, showing deep love of Nature, will present themselves, and delightful verse and harmonious prose, excellent in its component parts . . . ." - Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 153-4. Bell also writes of Rodrigues Lobo's "great and enduring fame." - p. 155. Each part of this trilogy stands on its own as a separate work; the first editions of each are rare, and all seventeeth-century editions are rather scarce.

Through a manuscript of a trial before the Inquisition of Miguel Lobo, the author's brother, it has become known that his father was a New Christian, while his mother was half New Christian; thus Rodrigues Lobo was three quarters Jewish in inheritance. It is clear, on the other hand, that the family had attained a status, albeit shaky, of borderline petty nobility, and that Rodrigues Lobo identified with the nobility.
 

191. TAVARES RODRIGUES, Urbano, e Joel Moniz. Zona xis. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2003. Biblioteca "Tabalhos do Olhar" 7. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 72 pp., (2 ll.), illus. ISBN: 989-552-004-2. $20.00

 
192. TORRES (CASTRO GIL), Amadeu [Rodrigues]. Quando os longes e o perto se emesmaram. Praface by Rui A. Faria Viana. Viana do Castelo: Centro de Estudos Regionais, 2003. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 141 pp., (1 l.). One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972-9397-43-0. $26.00

Among the themes of these poems are Yosemite Valley, Luanda, Garcia Lorca, Livrarias gaúchas, Pedro Hispano, the Bodleian Library, Whisky / Whiskey, fast food, Bolivarlândia, Os prelos da diáspora, and Gone With the Wind. Pages 133-6 contain a bibliography of the author. On the poet (in Portuguese and Latin), teacher, linguist, literary historian, and essayist Amadeu Torres (b. Vila de Punhe, Viana do Castelo, 1924), see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 377-80.