RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 42

September 2004

 
PART XVII:

Poetry

 
See also items 41, 210, 239, 246, 256, 259, 263, 272, 275, 279, 381, 442, 503, 506, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524 & 525.

291. ABOIM INGLEZ, Carlos. Soma pouca. Lisbon: Avante!, 2003. Colecção Resistência. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 182 pp. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-550-296-5. $22.00

 
292. AGUIAR, Bruno. Entre a vida e o amor. Lisbon: Universitária, 2003. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 86 pp. ISBN: 972-700-498-9. $18.00

The author was born in Lisbon, 1976. This appears to be his first book.

 
293. AGUIAR, Fernando, and Jorge Maximino, eds. Imaginários de ruptura: poéticas visuais. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2002. Poetica e Razão Imaginante. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 87 pp., profusely illus. ISBN: 972-771-556-7. $18.00

 
294. ALBA, Sebastião. Albas. Organização, introdução e notas de Maria de Santa-Cruz. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2003. Biblioteca "Primeiras Pessoas" 2. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 269 pp., (5 ll.), illus. ISBN: 989-552-033-6. $35.00

The poet was born Braga, 1940, and lived from 1950 to 1988 in Moçambique. He died, run over by a car, in October 2000. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 602-4.

 
295. AMARAL, Ana Luísa. A arte de ser tigre. Lisbon: Gótica, 2003. Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 70 pp. ISBN: 972-792-096-9. $24.00

The author has published seven previous volumes of poetry and two books for children. Her poetry has been translated into Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian. She was born in Lisbon in 1956, and holds a Ph.D. in North American literature, having written her thesis on Emily Dickinson.

 
296. BANDEIRA FREIRE, Pedro, Elsa Bandeira and Rui Freire. Segundas, quadras & sextas. Lisbon: Universitária, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 113 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-700-511-X. $18.00

 
297. BAPTISTA, Amadeu. O som do vermelho: tríptico poético sobre pintura de Rogério Ribeiro. Preface by Ana Isabel Ribeiro. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 59. Lge. 4° (24 x 20.1 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. [22 ll.], 3 full page color illus. ISBN: 972-610-743-1. $32.00

Poems in praise of three paintings by Rogério Ribeiro. The illustrations reproduce the paintings. The author, born in Porto in 1953, has published at least 15 volumes of poetry; he has also contributed to and co-edited Poesia digital: 7 poetas dos anos 80 (2002), in addition to having edited two other anthologies of poems. His unpublished "O claro interior" received the Prémio de Poesia e Ficção de Almada, 2000 (Poesia). Poems by Amadeu Baptista have been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, English, Romanian, Dutch, and Hebrew.
 

298. BARBEDO, António. A aárvore do Sábado. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 54. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 59 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-610-656-7. $20.00

This is the author's seventh book.

 
299. BARREIRA, Cecilia. 7 & 10. Póvoa Santo Adrião: Europress, 2003. Colecção O Sol no Tecto, 22. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 62 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972559-251-4. $20.00

 
300. BARRETO GUIMARÃES, João Luís. Rés-do-chão. Lisbon: Gótica, 2003. Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 49, (1) pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-792-072-1. $18.00

This author has published five volumes of poetry and one "Crónica". Born in 1967, he is a physician, and was living in Leça da Palmeira at the time this volume appeared.

 
301. BRANCO, Rosa Alice. Da alma e dos espíritos animais. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2001. Campo da Poesia, 37. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 85 pp. ISBN: 972-610-403-3. $19.00

The author has published at least four other volumes of poetry, and contributed to the Journal de Letras, Análise, and Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto. A member of the Grupo de Estudos de Semiótica e Poética do Porto, she was among those responsible for the review Figuras, and has worked on the staff of the review Limiar. She edited the volume Declaração universal dos direitos linguísticos (2001), and co-edited, with Egito Gonçalves, an anthology of poems, Das tripas ao coração (2001), issued in connection with Porto 2001, Capital Cultural da Cultura.
 

302. BRIZ, Ana. Sonata (im)perfeita, poesia. Lisbon: Universitária, 2004. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 62 pp. ISBN: 972-700-514-4. $15.00

 
303. CARNEIRO, Edgar. Depois de amanhã. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Instantes de Leitura, 45. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 107 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-610-671-0. $19.00

The author was born in 1913. He has published eleven volumes of poetry. See Dicionário de autores portugueses, IV, 509.
 

304. CASAIS MONTEIRO, Adolfo. Poesias completas. Introdução de João Rui de Sousa. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1993. Obras Completas. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 252 pp. (including frontis. port.), (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-27-0662-4. $25.00

Originally published 1969, but without the present preface, "onde agora foram introduzidos diversas alterações." Sousa's essay had appeared previously as "Casais Monteiro: uma poesia aberta aos quatro ventos," in the poetical anthology Adolfo Casais Monteiro (Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 1973).

 
305. CASTRO CALDAS, Joaquim. Só cá vim ver o sol. Paulo Mesquita, illus. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2004. Biblioteca "O Virgem Negra". 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 72 pp., (3 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972-552-048-4. $22.00

Born Lisbon, 1956, this is the author's eighth book.

 
306. COHEN, Rip, ed. 500 Cantigas d'amigo. Edição crítica. / Critical Edition. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Literatura Medieval, 1GF; Colecção Clássicos Portugueses (Campo de Letras), 24. Folio (27.6 x 20.4 cm.), orig. prtd. wrps. 645 pp., (1 l.) ISBN: 972-610-590-0. $65.00

The text of the substantial and extremely useful introductory material is in both Portuguese and English. There are valuable indexes of poets in alphabetical order, as presented in this edition, first verses in order of appearance in the BV, an alphabetical index of first verses, and a list of the number of verses attributed to each poet, in ascending order, as well as a bibliography (pp. 15-30).
 

307. COSTA, Carlos Couto Sequeira. Trés lições de arquitectura: ensaio de filosofia. Lisbon: Fenda, 2003. Títulos do Tesouro. Fenda Luminosa. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 66 pp., (2 blank ll., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-8529-85-6. $20.00

The author has published more than 20 books, including poetry, philosophy, literary criticism, and art history. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Faculdade de Letras, Porto, in 1994.

 
308. COSTA, Orlando da. Vocações evocações, poesia. Lisbon: Caminho, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 89 pp., (3 ll.), illus. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1617-7. $20.00

The poet, author of fiction, and dramatist Orlando [António] da Costa was born in Lourenço Marques (today Maputo), in 1929. He passed his infancy and youth in Goa, arriving in Lisbon at age 18. During the 1950s at the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, he mixed with the future leaders of FRELIMO, MPLA and PAIGC. His first book of poetry was published in 1951; a number more have followed. He has also written plays, at least two of which have been published; A como estão os cravos hoje? (1984) was awarded the Seiva Trupe prize. Among four novels, Signo da ira, was awarded the Prémio Ricardo Malherios by the Academy of Sciences in 1961, and Os netos de Norton won the Prémio Complementar "Eça de Queirós" de Literatura, 1994, given by the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. See Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 153; Helena Maria Al. Costa Toipa in Biblos, I, 1338; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 656.
 

309. COSTA MARQUES, Vasco da. Algumas trovas de haver o mar e um post scriptum. Preface by Correia da Fonseca. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 58. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 87 pp. ISBN: 972-610-660-5. $20.00

The author has written several earlier volumes of poetry.

 
310. COUTO AMARAL, Carlos Alfredo. Sereno fluir das horas, poesia. Lisbon: Colibri, 2004. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 95 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-772-467-1. $18.00

The author was born in Mangualde, 1960. He has published one previous volume of poems, in the same collection, and has collaborated in various newspapers and reviews.
 

311. COUTO VIANA, António Manuel. 60 Anos de poesia, 1943-2003. Preface by Fernando Pinto do Amaral. 2 vols. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2004. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 492 pp., (1 l.); 591 pp., (2 ll.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1227-6; 972-27-1228-4. 2 vols. $100.00

Born in Viana de Castelo in 1923, António Manuel [Gonzalez] Couto Viana is a theater director, playwright, translator (of Sophocles, Calderón de la Barca, Molière, and others), important poet and literary figure. See António Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 496; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 308-10.

 
312. DASKALOS, Maria Alexandre. Jardim das delícias, poesia. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 14. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 54 pp. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1548-0. $20.00

The author (born Huambo, Angola [formerly Nova Lisboa], 1957), published this volume of poetry for the first time in Luanda, 1991. It received a favorable notice from David Mestre in the Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideas, 1993.

 
313. FANHA, José, and José Jorge Letria, eds. Abril: 30 anos, trinta poemas. Preface by the editors. Armando Alves and Rogério Ribeiro, illus. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Campo da Poesia, 64. Lge. 4° (23.6 x 19.6 cm.), orig. prtd. wrps. 101 pp., (3 ll.), numerous full page color illus. ISBN: 972-610-821-7. $35.00

Among the poets included in this anthology are José Afonso, Manuel Alegre (3), Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (2), Jorge de Sena (3), Joaquim Pessoa (2), Natália Correia, José Jorge Letria (2), José Gomes Ferreira, Eugénio de Andrade, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, José Carlos Ary dos Santos (3), Teresa Horta, José Fanha (2), Jaime Rocha, and Armindo Rodrigues.
 

314. FANHA, José, and José Jorge Letria, eds. Cem poemas portugueses do adeus e da saudade. Selecção, organízação e íntrodução de José Fanha e José Jorge Letria. Lisbon: Terramar, 2002. 8°,original illustrated wrappers. 253 pp., (4 ll.). ISBN: 972-710-334-0. $28.00

 
315. FANHA, José, and José Jorge Letria, eds. Cem poemas portugueses do riso e do maldizer. Selecção, organízação e íntrodução de José Fanha e José Jorge Letria. Lisbon: Terramar, 2003. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 242 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-710-355-3. $28.00

 
316. FANHA, José, and José Jorge Letria, eds. Cem poemas portugueses sobre Portugal e o mar. Selecção, organízação e íntrodução de José Fanha e José Jorge Letria. Lisbon: Terramar, 2003. 8°,original illustrated wrappers. 270 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: 972-710-343-X. $28.00

 
317. FANHA, José, ed. De palavra em punho: antologia poética da resistência, de Fernando Pessoa ao 25 de Abril. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Campo da Poesia, 62. Lge. 8°, publ. blind-stamped bds. with d.j. 353 pp., (7 ll., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-610-810-1. $50.00

Includes poems by Pessoa, Jaime Cortesão, António Aleixo, Edmundo Bettencourt, José Gomes Ferreira, Vitorino Nemésio, Armindo Rodrigues, Andónio Gedeão, Miguel Torga, Adolfo Casais Monteiro, Manuel da Fonseca, Políbio Gomes dos Santos, Luís Veiga Leitão, Joquim Namorado, José Blanc Portugal, Alvor Feijó, Mário Dionísio, Papiniano Carlos, Fernando Namora, João José Cochofel, Jorge de Sena, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Raul de Carvalho, Sidónio Muralha, Carlos de Oliveira, Egito Gonçalves, José Saramago, Reinaldo Ferreira, Eugénio de Andrade, Mário-Henrique Leiria, Natália Correia, Vasco Lima Couto, Alexandre O'Neill, António Ramos Rosa, António Reis, Daniel Filipe, Fernando Lemos, David Mourão-Ferreira, Alberto de Lacerda, António Maria Lisboa, Carlos Eurico da Costa, Fernando Guimarães, João Rui de Sousa, Ana Hatherly, Fernando Echevarría, Fernando Miguel Bernardes, José Afonso, Albano Martins, Henrique Segurado, Maria Alberta Menéres, António Cabral, António José Forte, E.M. de Melo e Castro, José Bento, Rui Knopfli, António Rebordão Navarro, Cristovam Pavia, Eduardo Olímpio, Ferreira Guedes, Manuel Simões, Ruy Belo, Pedro Tamen, Luís Pignatelli, Emanuel Félix, Francisco Delgado, Manuel Alegre, Fernando Assis Pacheco, José Augusto Seabra, José Carlos Ary dos Santos, José Carlos González, José Correia Tavares, Maria Teresa Horta, Armando da Silva Carvalho, Casimiro de Brito, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Luísa Ducla Soares, Luiza Neto Jorge, José Carlos de Vasconcelos, Rui Namorado, Gastão Cruz, Eduardo Guerra Carneiro, José Mário Branco, Vasco Graça Moura, Alamo de Oliveira, Manuel Alberto Valente, J.H. Santos Barros, J.H. Borges Martins, Joaquim Pessoa, José Manuel Mendes, Vasco Pereira da Costa, Hélia Correia, Urbano Bettencourt, José Fanha and José Jorge Letria.
 

318. FARIA, Daniel. Poesia. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2003. Biblioteca de Veres o Meu Lugar, 2. Lge. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 432 pp., (8 ll.). ISBN: 989-552-031-X. $45.00

This volume reunites the author's six volumes of poetry. According to the publisher's blurb on the inside front cover, this encompasses his complete works to date, plus some previously unpublished poems.

 
319. FRANCLIM, S. Claustro de sonhos, poesia. Afterward by Sérgio Simões. Lisbon: Hugin, 2003. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 92 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-794-215-6. $25.00

The author, born in 1978, has published at least three volumes of poetry, three previous works of non-fiction prose and one volume of fiction.

 
320. FREIRE, Luísa. Ciclo da cal: Searas de tempo; Digo tu; Memórias da cal. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 56. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 99 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-610-624-9. $22.00

The author has published five previous volumes of poetry, and was said to have had two more in the press at the time this volume appeared. She also has written two works of literary criticism, and has edited several volumes in the collection Obras de Fernando Pessoa published by Assírio & Alvim.

 
321. FREITAS, Manuel de. Blues for Mary Jane. Lisbon: &etc., 2004. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 59 pp., (2 ll.). Text in Portuguese. ISBN: 972-8539-67-3. $19.00

The author, born 1972, is a published literary critic and art historian. He had published in 1999 A noite dos espelhos, a brief essay about the poetry of Al Berto, as well as several volumes of poetry. According to the publisher, whose opinion we respect, Manuel de Freitas is the best twenty-first-century Portuguese poet.

 
322. FREITAS, Manuel de. Juxta crucem tecum stare. Lisbon: Alexandria, 2004. Sm. 8°, plain black wrps. with grey printed label tipped on to front cover. 13 pp., (1 l.). One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Text in Portuguese. ISBN: 972-98806-3-8. $15.00

 
323. GOMES MIRANDA, Jorge. A hora perdida. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 55. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 85 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-610-687-7. $22.00

The author, poet, and literary critic, was born in Porto in 1965. He has published at least five volumes of poetry, a novella, and edited two anthologies. A regular contributor to the newspaper Público, he has written for a number of Portuguese and foreign literary reviews as well.

 
324. GOMES MIRANDA, Jorge. O caçador de tempestades. Lisbon: &etc., 2004. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 64 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-8539-68-1. $19.00

The author, poet, and literary critic, was born in Porto in 1965. He has published at least five volumes of poetry, a novella, and edited two anthologies. A regular contributor to the newspaper Público, he has written for a number of Portuguese and foreign literary reviews as well.
 

325. GONZAGA TAVARES, Luís. Quadras soltas. Preface by António Frade. Lisbon: Universitária, 2004. 16°, orig. prtd. wrps. 95 pp. ISBN: 972-700-516-0. $15.00

The author, born Lisbon, 1922, has written or edited at least eleven previous books, including poetry (one volume has had a second edition), economics, and accounting.

 
326. GRILO, Vítor-Luís, pseud. [i.e. Vítor Luís Martins Albarran Grilo]. Outra dimensão. Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2004. Colecção Casa de Poetas, 10. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 72 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8490-43-7. $20.00

The author was born in Lisbon, 1945, but has lived almost all his life in Torres Vedras. His poetry has appeared in newspapers, reviews and anthologies. This seems to be his sixth volume of poems.
 

327. HIGINO, Nuno. Onde correm as águas. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 57. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 105 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-610-670-2. $22.00

The author has produced at least one previous volume of poetry, and co-authored As cidades de Alvaro Siza (2001).

 
328. HILARIO [M.F.], Fernando. Tempo instante. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2003. Poetica e Razão Imaginante. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 109 pp. ISBN: 972-771-682-2. $18.00

 
329. HORTA, Maria Teresa. Antologia pessoal: 100 poemas. Lisbon: Gótica, 2003. Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 162 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-792-095-0. $24.00

Journalist and author of a number of volumes of poetry and fiction, the author is perhaps best known as one of the "Três Marias" who published the sensational feminist manifesto Novas cartas portuguesas in 1972.
 

330. ILIDIO, José. A primeira letra de jota. Vila Nova da Famalição: Amores Perfeitos, 2001. Poesia, 6. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 66 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8621-16-7. $15.00

Born 1953 in Branca, Concelho de Albergaria-a-Velha, this is the author's first book.

 
331. JUDICE, Nuno, and Gustavo Nobre., eds. Portugal futurista: edição facsimilada. Lisbon: Contexto, 1990. Folio, orig. prtd. wrps. (10, 1 ll.), 42 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-575-087-X. $25.00

Contains a preliminary study by Nuno Júdice, "O Futurismo em Portugal," as well as transcripts of 14 letters, of which 6 are by Mário de Sá-Carneiro, 3 by Fernando Pessoa.
 

332. LETRIA, José Jorge. O fantasma da obra, II: antologia poética, 1993-2001. Estudo introductório de José Augusto Seabra. Lisbon: Hugin, 2002. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 445 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-794-118-4. $60.00

The author's A dúvida melódica was awarded the Prémio de Poesia Cidade da Amadora, 1993. He has published at least 33 volumes of poetry, a number of which have also been awarded literary prizes, including the Prémio Eça de Queiroz-Município de Lisboa(twice), the Prémio Gulbenkian, and others. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 266. From January 1994 until January 2002 the author was Vereador da Cultura for the Câmara Municipal de Cascais.

 
333. LIMA, Ângelo de. Poesias completas. Edition, preface and notes by Fernando Guimarães. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2003. Documenta Poetica. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 157 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972-37-0294-0. $22.00

 
334. MACHADO, Alice. A agitação dos sonhos. Isabel Aguiar Barcelos, trans. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Instantes de Leitura, 52. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 78 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-610-791-1. $20.00

The author, a native of Trás-os-Montes, has lived in France for 20 years. She has had published three works of fiction and one previous volume of poetry. While she writes in French, she continues to consider Portuguese her "língua-mãe". The book does not appear to have been previously published in any other language.
 

335. mãe, valter hugo, ed. Desfocados pelo vento: a poesia dos anos 80, agora, antologia. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2004. Finita Melancolia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 298 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: 989-552-036-0. $35.00

Includes contributions by Adília Lopes, Amadeu Baptista, Carlos Poças Falcão, Daniel Maia-Pinto Rodrigues, Fernando Luís Sampaio, Francisco José Viegas, Francisco Duarte Mangas, Gil de Carvalho, Helga Moreira, Inês Lourenço, Isabel de Sá, João Luês Barreto Guimarães, Jorge de Sousa Braga, José Emílio-Nelson, Luís Adriano Carlos, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, Manuel Cintra, Paulo Teixeira, Rosa Alice Branco and Rui Duarte Mangas.

 
336. MARINHO ABREU, Pedro. Errante vou. Vila Nova da Famalição: Amores Perfeitos, 2004. Colecção Poesia. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 106 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-8621-62-0. $22.00
 

337. MARQUES, José-Alberto. Carta a um jovem antes de ser poeta. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2002. Colecção a Preto e Branco. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. [20 ll.]. ISBN: 972-610-494-7. $18.00

Born in Torres Novas in 1939, Marques has had published at least 13 volumes of poetry, 4 of fiction, and 3 children's books. He collaborated with E.M. de Melo e Castro in Antologia da poesia concreta em Portugal (1973), and served as co-editor of the poetry review Crisol (1983). See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 296; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 561-2.

 
338. MARQUES, José-Alberto. Hiperlíricas. Preface by António Cândido Franco. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Campo da Poesia, 61. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 100 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-610-792-X. $22.00

The preface (pp. 7-12), is titled "Sobre o hiperlirismo de José-Alberto Marques".

 
339. MARTINEZ LORA, Diego, ed. 10 + 1 Poetas para estar. Vila Nova da Gaia: Editorial 100, 2004. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 136 pp. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972-8843-13-5. $23.00

The ten poets are Maria José Castro, João Manuel de Oliveira Ribeiro, Rita Moreira, Paula Margarida Pinho, António Maga, Ângela Marques, José Carlos Alves, Laura Moniz, Diego Martínez Lora, and Bruno Santos. The "+ 1" is the Slovenian Brane Mozetic.

 
340. MARTINS, Miguel. Cirrose. Lisbon: Fenda, 2003. Fenda Luminosa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 43, (1) pp., (2 ll.). One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972-8529-99-6. $18.00

The author has had five previous books published between 1995 and 2002.

 
341. MATEUS, Alexandre. Tudo o que tenho. Vila Nova da Famalição: Amores Perfeitos, 2003. Poesia, 38. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 51 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-8621-47-7. $18.00

The author was born in Lisbon, 1976, and grew up in Cascais. He has written poetry and music since 1995. This appears to be his first book.

 
342. MATOS, Manuel. Tropismo dito. Vila Nova da Famalição: Amores Perfeitos, 2004. Colecção Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 159 pp. ISBN: 972-8621-65-5. $30.00

 
343. MATOS MIRA, Joseia. Lugar solitário, poemas. Lisbon: Escritor, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 118 pp., (6 ll.). ISBN: 972-8590-79-2. $25.00

The author, born in Baleizão, Beja, has done graduate work in philology at McGill University, where she also lectured. She has published a two novels and volume of short stories; her short stories have also appeared in reviews. This is her first volume of poetry.

 
344. MATTOS E SILVA, João. Intemporal: antologia, 1968-2003. Selecção e prefácio, Cândido José de Campos. Luís Silva Moreira, illus. Lisbon: Universitária, 2003. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 115 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-700-503-9. $18.00

The author was born in Lisbon, 1944. His poetry and prose have appeared in various newspapers and reviews, such as the Diário de notícias, Jornal de letras, Seminário, Letras e letras, and Sol XXI. His work has also appeared in at least five anthologies; he has had six volumes of poems published prior to this one.

 
345. MELO E CASTRO, E[rnesto] M[anuel Geraldes] de. No limite das coisas. Introduction by José-Alberto Marques. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 53. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 106 pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-610-658-3. $22.00

The introduction occupies pp. 7-17. The author (b. Covilhã, 1932), textile engineer, poet, critic and essayist, has collaborated with various newspapers and reviews in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, and France since the 1960s. He was one of the leaders of the literary vanguard in Portugal during the second half of the twentieth century, especially during the 1960s, and was awarded the Grande Prémio de Poesia INASET/INAPA in 1990. See Fernando J.B. Martinho in Machado, ed. Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 118; Ana Hatherly in Biblos, I, 1062-3; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 121-4.

 
346. MENDES, José Manuel. Setembro outra vez, antologia. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Colecção Caminho da Poesia. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 92 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1562-6. $22.00

The author's Ombro, arma! (1978; 5th ed 1998) was described as ". . . um dos romances portugueses mais significativos sobre o drama da guerra colonial e de uma geração nela perdiada ou por ela estigmatizada." - Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 311; see also pp. 310-1. Professor and lawyer, Communist Party deputy to the Assembleia da República (1989-1991), and president of the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, he has published at least 8 volumes of poetry (one originally issued in French; another Presságios do sul [1993], which received the Grande Prémio de Literatura ITF in 1995, was subsequently published in Louvain in a bilingual Portuguese-French edition, and again in Belgium in 1997). He has also published a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, and several other works.

 
347. MENDES MOREIRA, Francisco. Teoria da cegonha. Vila Nova da Famalição: Amores Perfeitos, 2004. Colecção Poesia. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 73 pp. ISBN: 972-8621-51-5. $18.00
 

348. MESQUITA, Arnaldo. As duas vozes. Lisbon: Avante!, 2003. Colecção Resistência. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 51 pp. ISBN: 972-550-297-3. $18.00
 

349. MESSEDER, João Pedro. À noite as estrelas descem do céu. Emílio Remelhe, illus. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2002. Colecção a Preto e Branco. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. [31, 1 blank ll.], profusely illus. ISBN: 972-610-493-9. $19.00

The following subtitle appears on the front cover only: 34 poemas para jovens e alguns desafios poéticos. The author, born Porto, 1957, has published at least six other volumes of verse (two for children). His book of poems, Fissura (2000), was awarded the Prémio Literário Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho for 1999 by the Câmara Municipal de Loures.
 

350. MEXIA, Pedro. Eliot e outras observações. Lisbon: Gótica, 2003. Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 141 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-792-068-3. $25.00

Born in Lisbon in 1972, the author has published three previous volumes of poetry, and has edited a volume of "novissima poesia portuguesa". He has written literary criticism for the supplement to the Diário de notícias and the review Ler.

 
351. MONTEIRO, Sara. Uma volta pela cidade. Vila Nova da Famalição: Amores Perfeitos, 2004. Colecção Poesia. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 46 pp. ISBN: 972-8621-64-7. $20.00

 
352. MOURA, Célia [Cristina Fernandes]. Jardins do exílio. Preface by Paulo Brito e Abreu. Victor Fonseca, illus. Lisbon: Hugin, 2003. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 141 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-794-192-3. $28.00

The author was born in Lisbon, 1971. She has published one previous volume of poetry, and has had her poems included in two anthologies. Her work has also appeared in the Lisbon daily Correio da manhã, and in the weekly Artes & artes.
 
353. NAVE, Alexandre, Beatriz Reina, Isabel Aguiar Barcelos, et al. Poesia à mesa. Selecção de textos de . . . . Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, and São João da Madeira: Câmara Municipal, 2004. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 134 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: 972-552-060-3. $28.00

In addition to the authors mentioned above, this anthology contains poems by João Rios, Jorge Melicias, Jorge Reis-Sá, José Luís Peixoto, José Rui Teixeira, Maria do Rosário Pedreira, Pedro Gil-Pedro, Rui Lage, Teiago Araújo and valter hugo mãe.

 
354. OLIVEIRA CRUZ, A. Deus semente ou o vasto e abissal instinto de amar. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2003. Poetica e Razão Imaginante. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 121 pp. ISBN: 972-771-670-9. $18.00

The author, born in Bigas, Viseu, 1945, has had at least 37 volumes of poetry published.

 
355. OLIVEIRA JORGE, Vítor. As arquitecturas sazonais. Preface by Vítor Aguiar e Silva. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 52. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 148 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-610-650-8. $28.00

The author was born in Lisbon, 1948. He holds a Ph.D. in Pre-history and Archeology from the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Porto. He has published several previous volumes of poetry; his poems have also appeared in numerous newspapers, such as the Diário de Lisboa, República, Diário popular, and the Jornal de notícias, as well as in reviews such as Colóquio / Letras and Nova renascença, and in anthologies. He has published as well a number of books on archeology, and has edited or co-edited several volumes of essays.

 
356. OLIVEIRA RIBEIRO, João Manuel de. Amores (quase) perfeitos e outras arritmias. Vila Nova da Gaia: Editorial 100, 2002. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 77, (1) pp., (1 l.). One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972-98870-0-4. $19.00

The author, born in São Martinho da Gândara, Oliveira de Azeméis, 1968, has written at least five volumes of poems, a collection of essays, and a volume of literary history and criticism. "Frequentou o Seminário Maior do Porto. Ordenou-se presbítero em 1993."

 
357. OSORIO DE CASTRO, Alberto (1868-1946). Obra poética. Introduction by José Carlos Seabra Pereira. António Osório, ed. 2 vols. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2004. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. 532 pp., (1 l.); 428 pp., (1 l. adv., 1 l.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1275-X; 972-27-1306-X. 2 vols. $90.00

Collaborator with António Nobre, intimate friend of Camilo Pessanha (whose work he influenced), the poet and magistrate Alberto Osório de Castro lived and worked in Angola, Goa and Timor, having traveled extensively in the Orient. Eventually he served as Minister of Justice in the government of Sidónio Pais. As a student at Coimbra University, along with Alberto de Oliveira and António Nobre he was part of the groups Boémia Nova and Os Insubmissos. He corresponded with Rubén Dário (to whom he dedicated a chapter in one of his books), and Rémy de Gourmont. See Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 118; Aníbal de Castro in Biblos I, 1057-8; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 64-5; Saraiva and Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), pp. 1023, 1033.
 
358. PEDREIRA, Maria Rosário. Nenhum nome depois. Lisbon: Gótica, 2004. Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 74 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-792-101-9. $23.00

The author's A casa e cheiro dos livros, first published Lisbon: Quetzal, 1996; 2nd ed. Gótica, 2002, was awarded the Prémio Poème, and Prémio Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho. Born in Lisbon in 1959, the author has written poetry and juvenile literature as well as fiction.
 

359. RAMOS ROSA, António, and Robert Bréchon. Meditações metapoéticas. / Méditations metapoétiques. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 382 pp. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1570-7. $40.00

The poems are numbered 1 through 146. The even numbered ones were composed by António Ramos Rosa in Portuguese; the French translations by Robert Bréchon were revised by Agripina Ramos Rosa. The odd numbered poems were written by Robert Bréchon; the Portuguese translations are by António Ramos Rosa, revised by Filipe Jarro.

 
360. RAMOS ROSA, António. O poeta na rua: antologia portátil de António Ramos Rosa. Selecção e prefácio de Ana Paula Coutino Mendes. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2004. Finita Melancolia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 92 pp., (4 ll.). ISBN: 989-552-047-6. $25.00

 
361. REGALO, Leocádia. Passados os rigores da invernia. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Colecção Caminho da Poesia. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 62 pp. One of 600 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1571-5. $24.00

This is the author's third volume of poetry. Her work has been included in an anthology, and she has collaborated with the Revista Atlântida, published by the Instituto Açoriano de Cultura, vols. XLV (2000), XLVI (2001), and XLVII (2002), published at Angra do Heroísmo.

 
362. REIS-SA, Jorge, ed. Anos 90 e agora: uma antologia da nova poesia portuguesa. 3rd ed., revised and augmented. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2004. Finita Melancolia [5]. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 434 pp., (7 ll.). ISBN: 972-8632-23-1. $45.00

The first edition of this interesting anthology appeared in May 2001; a second edition was published in July of the same year. This third edition is greatly revised and augmented (the previous editions contained only 294 pp. and a single unnumbered leaf). Included are poems by Ana Luísa Amaral, Ana Paula Inácio, Ana Marques Gastão, Carlos Saraiva Pinto, Daniel Faria, Fernando Pinto do Amaral, Jorge Melicias, José Tolentino Mendonça, Luis Quintais, Manuel Gusmão, Maria do Rosário Pedreira, Paulo José Miranda, Rui Coias, Rui Pires Cabral, valter hugo mãe, Vasco Ferreira Campos, and Vasco Gato. Jorge Gomes Miranda and Pedro Mexia, who were included in the previous editions, are absent from this one. Poets new to this edition are João Luís Berreto Guimarães, Gonçalo M. Tavares, João Ricardo Lopes, José Luís Peixoto, José Rui Teixeira, Maria Andresen de Sousa, Mário Rui de Oliveira, Nuno Higino, Pedro Sena-Lino, Rui Lage, Ruy Ventura, and Tiago Araújo.

 
363. RISQUES PEREIRA, Henrique. Transparência do tempo (poesia). Perfecto E. Cuadrado, ed. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2003. Biblioteca "Cidadães de Palagüin" 1. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 156 pp., (2 ll.), illus. ISBN: 989-552-029-X. $32.00

Described as the complete poetical works, much previously unpublished. Henrique Risques Pereira was born in Lisbon, 1930. Through Pedro Oom the artist-poet Henrique Risques Pereira became part of the "dissident" surrealist movement in 1949. Some of his poems appeared in anthologies edited by Mário Cesariny, and in other anthologies.

 
364. ROCHA, Jaime. Do extermínio. Preface by Joaquim Manuel Magalhães. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 2003. Poesia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with d.j. 72 pp., (8 ll.). ISBN: 972-708-758-2. $20.00

The author has had published at least three novels, one story, and ten volumes of poetry, in addition to six volumes of plays. In 1998 he was awarded the Grande Prémio APE de Teatro for the play O terceiro andar. He won the Prémio Eixo Atlântico de Textos Dramaticos in 2000 for his play Seis mulhers sob escuta.

 
365. SA-CARNEIRO, Mário de. Poemas completos. Fernando Cabral Martins, ed. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2001. Documenta Poética, 33. Obras de Mário de Sá-Carneiro. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 274 pp., (1 ll. adv., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-37-0193-6. $36.00

 
366. SA-CARNEIRO, Mário de. Poemas. Teresa Sobral Cunha, ed. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 2003. Obras Escolhidas. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 147 pp., (1 l. adv., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-708-718-3. $24.00

Includes two brief texts about Sá-Carneiro by Fernando Pessoa.

 
367. SALVADO, Gonçalo, and Maria João Fernandes, eds. Cerejas: poemas de amor de autores portugueses contemporâneos. Abertura, Eduardo Lourenço. Posfácio, António Ramos Rosa. Ambrósio, illus. Fundão: Câmara Municipal, and Dafundo: Editorial Tágide, 2004. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 271 pp. ISBN: 972-98883-5-3. $40.00

Some of the poems are previously unpublished. Among the poets included in this anthology are Al Berto, Eugénio Andrade, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Miguel Barbosa, José Bebiano, Maria de Lourdes Belchior, Ruy Belo, Rosa Alice Branco, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Casimiro de Brito, João Camilo, Edgar Carneiro, E.M. de Melo e Castro, Natália Correia, Fernando Echevarria, Rosa Lobato Faria, Nuno de Figueiredo, António Gedeão, Egito Gonçalves, Ana Hatherly, Maria Teresa Horta, Lídia Jorge, Nuno Júdice, José Jorge Letria, Sdília Lopes, Francisco Duarte Mangas, Albano Martins, Pedro Homem de Mello, João Pedro Mésseder, Pedro Mexia, Vasco Graça Moura, Vitorino Nemésio, Orlando Neves, Alexandre O.Neill, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Joaquim Pessoa, Carlos Lopes Pires, António Ramos Rosa, António Salvado, Gonçalo Salvado, Isabel Leonor Forte Salvado, José Carlos Ary dos Santos, Artur Cruzeiro Seixas, Pedro da Silveira, João Rui de Sousa, Pedro Tamen, Miguel Torga, Ruy Ventura, and Francisco José Viegas.

 
368. SANTOS, António José Pacheco de Miranda. Destino das palavras. Preface (pp. 7-13) by Abílio Peixoto. Lisbon: Universitária, 2003. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 76 pp. Printed in brown ink throughout. ISBN: 972-700-511-X. $18.00

The author, an architect, was born in Lisbon, 1927. In addition to poems which have appeared in various newspapers and reviews, he has published at least five volumes of poetry, one with a preface by António Manuel Couto Viana. His work has been translated into Romanian and Bulgarian; in 2002 the Instituto Camões sponsored a bilingual edition of one of his works in Bulgaria.
 

369. SANTOS-LOPES, Manuel. Falucho ancorado, poesias. Organização e prefácio de Alberto Carvalho. Lisbon: Cosmos , 1997. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. lxv, 128 pp. ISBN: 972-762-065-5. $20.00

Includes a brief index of poems.

 
370. SEABRA, José Augusto. A luz de Creta: diário poético (1986-97). Proémio de Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira. Lisbon: Cosmos , 2000. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 164 pp. ISBN: 972-762-144-9. $22.00

The author has had published at least ten previous volumes of poetry and a number of volumes of essays and literary criticism.
 

371. SILVA SANTOS, Arquimedes da. Cantos cativos, poemas coligidos: 1938-58. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo da Poesia, 51. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 230 pp., (1 blank l., 3 ll.). ISBN: 972-610-621-4. $30.00

 
372. SOARES, Francisco. Quicola: estudo. Para um conhecimento do património formal da poesia angolana: os poemas líricos em verso oriundos de Angola e publicados no século XIX no Almanach de lembranças luso-brasileiro. Evora: Pendor, 1998. Colecção Ao Sul, 7. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 270 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-8163-18-5. $40.00

 
373. SUCENA, Paulo. Amor em adjectivo. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Colecção Caminho da Poesia. 8°, original printed wrappers. 54 pp. One of 600 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1550-2. $20.00

 
374. TAVARES, Paula. Ex-votos, poesia. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 20. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 44 pp. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1563-4. $18.00

The author (born Huíla, in the South of Angola, 1952), has published three previous volumes of poetry, and a volume of essays. Several of her poems have appeared in anthologies in Galicia and in Brazil.
 

375. TORGAL, Adosinda Providência, and Clotilde Correia Botelho, eds. Lisboa com seus poetas: colectânea. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2000. Poesia do Século XX, 37. 8°, Orig. wrps. with printed label tipped on to front cover 317 pp., (11 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972-20-1800-0. $38.00

 
376. VERA, António. Sons que falam, poemas. Lisbon: Colibri, 2004. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 142 pp., (1 l.). One of 420 copies. ISBN: 972-772-463-9. $19.00

 
377. VIEGAS, João. Gostastes? Contos de um país real. Lisbon: Bizâncio, 2004. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 189 pp. ISBN: 972-53-0225-7. $24.00

The following note appears on the verso of the title page: "O erro intencional do título Gostastes?, que causou algum desconforto ao editor e muita satisfação ao autor, pretende ilustrar a falta de qualidade e exigência dos tempos que vivemos. Contudo, convém lebrar que esta palavra é a 2. pessoa do plural do pretério perfeito do indicativo do verbo gostar, mas nunca, momo muitas vezes é empregue, a 2 do singular, cuja forma correcta é gostaste." The author has worked in public relations in Portugal, Brazil and the United States. He has published previously two collections of short stories.

 
378. VIEIRA, Vergílio Alberto. Crescente branco. Preface by Alexei Bueno. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Campo da Poesia, 60. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 72 pp., (1 l., 3 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-610-768-7. $19.00

The author has published at least 14 volumes of poetry, 3 volumes of fiction, several other volumes of prose, including diaries (2), criticism, and travel, as well as 8 books for children. His work is represented in several anthologies, and he has edited two anthologies of poems by current writers.

 
379. VIEIRA DA CRUZ, Thomaz (1900-1960). Quissanje. Preface by Francisco Soares. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2004. Escritores dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, 35. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 149 pp., (2 ll. adv., 1 l.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1324-8. $30.00

The preface occupies pp. 7-24. The author, born in Constância, Ribatejo, Portugal, spent most of his adult life in Angola. His poetry is filled with African themes. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 58-9; also Mário António de Oliveira, A formação da literatura angolana.

 
380. VILANOVA, João-Maria, pseud. Poesia. Lisbon: Caminho, 2004. Colecção Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 27. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 109 pp. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1622-3. $19.00

The poet and essayist who writes under the name of João-Maria Vilanova was said to have been born in Luanda, 1933. An enigmatic figure, some say his true name is João Freitas, others say it is José Guilherme Fernandes. His Vinte canções para Ximinha (Luanda 1971) was awarded the Prémio Motta Veiga (but he never claimed the prize, nor did he reject it). Caderno dum guerrilheiro was published in Luanda, 1974. His poetry has been translated into Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatial, English and Basque, and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies, both in Portugal and abroad. The publisher's "belt" supplies this quote from Professor Russell Hamilton of Vanderbilt University: "Vilanova é uma voz poética poderosa." See Dicionário cronológico de authores portugueses, VI, 234-5.