RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 49

December 2005

 
PART XVII:

Poetry

 
See also items 100, 124, 193, 201 & 211.

136. ALMEIDA, Bernardo Pinto de. Segunda pátria. Front cover after a painting by Mário Cesariny. Lisbon: &etc., 2005. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 47 pp., (4 ll.), color photograph by the author tipped onto recto of preliminary blank l. One of 300 copies, 50 of which were signed by the author, and not for sale. ISBN: 972-8539-79-7.

$20.00

The author, professor of the history and theory of art at the Faculdade de Belas Artes, Porto, is a distinguished art historian and critic. He has published over 20 books, mostly of art history and criticism, but including at least two books for children.

 
137. BAPTISTA, Abel Barros, and Osvaldo M. Silvestre, eds. Seria uma rima, não seria uma solução: a poesia modernista. Lisbon: Cotovia, 2005. Curso Breve de Literatura Brasileira, 4. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 333 pp., (1 p. adv., 1 p. colophon). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-795-114-7.

$40.00

Fourth number in an interesting new collection, Curso Breve de Literatura Brasileira, under the editorship of Abel Baptista Barros, presently projected to sixteen volumes. Pages 13-57 consist of a substantial introduction by the editors. Poets represented in the anthology are Manuel Bandeira, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Raup Bopp, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Murilio Mendes. A succinct bio-bibliographical essay comes before the selections of each author. Beginning on p. 227 are some selected documents, also with explanatory essays, including manifestos such as Klaxon, articles in newspapers of the period about the Semana de Arte Moderna, correspondence between the poets (1922-1930), essays by Oswald de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira (2), and Mário de Andrade, bibliographical notes (pp. 302-12), and an "Anexo" by Roberto Vecchi, "As dissonâncias da história natural: Manuel Bandeira e a poesia modernista" (pp. 313-33).
 

138. COSTA, Zé Luís. 20 Poemas a Anton Webern, seguido de Aventuras, com 10 desenhos de Tiago Cutileiro. Lisbon: &etc., 2005. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 72 pp., (2 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972-8539-80-0.

$22.00

 
139. CRUZEIRO SEIXAS, Artur do. Obra poética. Isabel Meyrelles, ed. 3 volumes. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi / Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Centro de Estudos do Surrealismo, 2002-2004. Biblioteca Eu Falo em Chamas, 1-3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 240 pp., (4 ll.).; 452 pp., (6 ll.); 452 pp., (6 ll.). ISBN: 972-8632-95-9; 972-552-001-5; 989-552-072-7.

3 volumes. $190.00

Volume II, subtitled Poemas de Africa, is out-of-print. We have one complete set available. Volume I was awarded the Prémio Ruy Belo, 2002. The surrealist painter Cruzeiro Seixas (b. 1920), is known for his "poder de imaginação e cromatismo vibrante" (Pamplona, 2nd ed., V, 160-1).

 
140. CUNHAL, Maria Eugénia. Silêncio de vidro, poesia. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Escritor, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 66 pp., (2 ll., 1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-8928-07-6.

$18.00

First published 1962, this was the author's first book. Born in Lisbon in 1927, she is the daughter of Avelino Cunhal, a distinguished teacher and legal scholar, and the sister of the late Alvaro Cunhal, for many years head of the Portuguese Communist Party. A journalist, she has translated the short stories of Chekhov into Portuguese, and has made other translations as well. She has published three volumes of poetry, in 1962, 1983, and 2000, and a volume of short stories, 2003.
 

141. HELDER [Luís Bernardes de Oliveira], Herberto. Ou o poema contínuo. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2004. Colecção Documenta Poetica. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 568 pp., (1 ll., 5 pp. adv., 1 p.). ISBN: 972-37-0954-6.

$50.00

This work is essentially an updating, with poems excised and said to contain some new ones added, of the author's Poesia toda, which was allowed to remain out-of-print. Please note: this is not the same author's Ou o poema contínuo: súmula (ISBN = 972-37-0627-X, a work of only 126 pp. issued in 2001). On this major poet, born Funchal, 1930, considered by many the greatest living Portuguese poet, see Nuno Júdice in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 238: "Desde os primeiros livros (O Amor em Vista, 1958, e A Colher na Boca, 1961), a poesia de Herberto Helder tornou-se um momento ímpar na afirmação daquilo que, em Portugal, se pode considerar com a mais conseguida realização do visionarismo poético ocidental, que recebe a herança de Rimbaud e Lautréamont e passa pelo surrealismo." Américo Lindeza Diogo in Biblos, II, 973, states ". . . Helder é dos nossos poetas contemporâneos o único que tem pingos de génio."

 
142. MARREIROS, António da Silva. A voz do vento, poemas. Preface by Dolores Parreira. Lisbon: Colibri, 2005. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 141 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-772-564-3.

$18.00

The author was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, 1932.

 
143. MIRA, Joseia Matos. Le Voyage. Lisbon: Escritor, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 79, (1) pp., (3 ll.). Text in Portuguese and French on facing pages. ISBN: 972-8928-04-1.

$19.00

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

 
144. PIMENTA, Alberto. Marthiy de Abdel Hamid, segundo Alberto Pimenta. Lisbon: &etc., 2005. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 54 pp., (1 l.), illus. tipped on to verso of half title, 1 illus. in text. ISBN: 972-8539-81-9.

$20.00

Born in Porto in 1937, the poet, essayist, performer, and university professor Alberto Pimenta has collaborated in various German, Italian, and Portuguese literary reviews. He has been an important vanguard figure in Portuguese literature. See Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 380; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 451-2.
 

145. SOUSA, João Rui de. Lavra e pousio. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. 4°, orig. plain wrps. with printed label tipped on to front cover. 132 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2935-5.

$25.00

João Rui de Sousa was awarded the Prémio de Poesia do PEN Clube Português (2002), and the Prémio da Crítica do Centro Português da AICL, the same year. On the author (b. Lisbon, 1928), see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 465. His Obra poética, 1960-2000 was published by Dom Quixote in 2002.