RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 56

April 2007

 
PART XIX:

Poetry

 
See also items 120, 201, 342, 353, 354 & 359.

231. ALEIXO, António (1899-1949). Este livro que vos deixo. 19th ed. of vol. I; 14th ed of vol. II. Prefácios e notas preliminares de Fernando Laginha e Joaquim Magalhães (vol. I only); Notas preliminares de Joaquim Magalhães (vol. II). Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 2005. Obras de António Aleixo. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 207 pp., (1 l.); 224 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-46-1468-7; 972-46-1469-7. $50.00

On the popular poet "algarvio" António [Fernandes] Aleixo, see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 539-40; and José Alves Pires in Biblos I, 122-3. Almost illiterate, he led a colorful life, as a shepherd, stonecutter's assistant, and guard for the Policia de Segurança Pública (a post for which his temperament was grossly unsuited). As an itinerant lottery ticket seller, he traveled to various regional fairs. He came to the attention of teacher at the Liceu de Faro, Joaquim Magalhães, who began to collect his work, and promoted its printing. This posthumous anthology first appeared in 1969.
 

232. BAPTISTA, José Agostinho. Além-mar. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2006. Colecção Sons, 6. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 45 pp., (1 l.), CD tipped in. ISBN: 972-37-1162-2. $50.00

The author has published a number of volumes of poetry. He has also translated Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and William Carlos Williams. The CD contains readings of the poems by António Cardoso Pinto.

 
233. BESSA, Carlos. Dezanove maneiras de fazer a mesma pergunta. Vila Real: Teatro de Vila Real, 2007. Poesia Portuguesa Comtemporânea, 5. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 32 pp., (1 blank l., 3 ll.). One of 500 copies. ISBN: 989-95027-2-7. $20.00

The author has published several volumes of poetry.

 
234. CABRAL, A.[ntónio] M.[anuel] Pires. Antes que o rio seque, poesia reunida. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2006. Colecção Documenta Poetica, 110. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 420 pp., (6 ll.). ISBN: 972-37-1154-0. $45.00

The author, born in Chacim, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Trás-os-Montes, in 1941, displays a certain ruralism in his early poetry, and in much of his fiction. He has written several historical novels set in his native region. In addition to fiction and poetry, he has published plays and essays. See Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 89; also João Bigotte Chorão in Biblos, I, 832-3.

 
235. CARVALHO, Armando Silva. O que foi passado a limpo, 1965-2005. Preface by José Manuel de Vasconcelos. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Documenta Poetica, 111. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 590 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-37-1176-9. $65.00

The preface, titled "Um redondo poder para o ar da peste: a poesia de Armando Silva Carvalho" occupies pp. 9-26. Armando Silva Carvalho, author of fiction and poetry, born near Obidos, 1938, has been awarded several literary prizes. He worked as a lawyer for a brief time, then opted for journalism. His work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, and Latvian. He has translated into Portuguese, among others, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Aimé Césaire, and Andrei Voznessenski. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp 103-4.

 
236. CESARINY, [Mário (de Vasconcelos)]. Uma grande razão: os poemas maiores. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Documenta Poetica, 114. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 159, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-37-1183-7. $25.00

The author (Lisbon, 1923-Lisbon 2006), is referred to by Maria de Fátima Marinho in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 487-9, as "the greatest exponent of Portuguese surrealism."

 
237. COSTA, Manuel Afonso. Caligrafia imperial e dias duvidosos. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Poesia Inédita Portuguesa, 107. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 93 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-37-1189-9. $22.00

The author previously published a novel, Iniciação à memória (2003), as well as an earlier volume of poetry in the same collection as the present volume. He has taught Portuguese history and culture at Aix-en Provence, Macau and Trás-os-Montes.
 

238. CRUZ, Gastão. A moeda do tempo. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2006. Colecção Poesia Inédita Portuguesa, 103. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 77 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-37-1158-3. $20.00

Gastão [Santana Franco da] Cruz, a co-founder (with Carlos Fernando) and director of the Grupo Teatro Hoje, established in 1975 and since 1977 located at the Teatro da Graça, was theater critic for the review Vida mundial in 1975 and for the weekly O Jornal in 1977. In 1961 he participated in the publication of Poesia 61. From 1966-67 he was poetry critic for the literary supplement to Diário de Lisboa; from 1969-70 he critiqued poetry for the review Seara Nova; in 1972 he did the same for Crítica. He has published in excess of 20 volumes of poetry. From 1980 to 1986 he served as Reader of Portuguese at King's College, University of London. Born in Faro in 1941, Cruz has translated Shakespeare, Strindberg, and Cocteau into Portuguese. See Nuno Júdice in Machado, ed., Dicionário da literatura portuguesa, pp. 156-7.
 

239. CRUZ, Gastão. Outro nome; Escassez; As aves. Preface by Manuel Gusmão. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2006. Colecção Documenta Poetica, 103. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 95, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-37-1114-1. $20.00

 
240. FALCÃO, Luís. Pétalas negras ardem nos teus olhos. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Poesia Inédita Portuguesa, 106. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 40 pp., (4 ll.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-37-1190-5. $18.00

 
241. FIGUEIREDO, José [de Magalhães] Valle de. O seu a seu poema, 1959-2002. Preface by José Carlos Seabra Pereira. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 340 pp., (1 l. colophon). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1512-7. $45.00

The preface occupies pp. 7-44. On the poet José Valle de Figueiredo, born at Tondela, 1942, see João Bigotte Chorão in Biblos, II, 581-2.

 
242. FREITAS, Manuel de. Juros de demora. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. 16°, orig. illus. wrps., stapled. 26 pp., (3 ll.). One of 400 copies, numbered and signed by the author. ISBN: 972-37-1182-0. $25.00

Manuel de Freitas, born 1972, is a published literary critic and art historian. He has published a brief essay about the poetry of Al Berto, A noite dos espelhos (1999), Uma espécie de crime: apresentação do rosto de Herberto Helder (2001), as well as at least fourteen volumes of his own poetry. He edited at least one anthology of poems by other contemporary authors. According to a friend whose opinion we respect, Manuel de Freitas is the best twenty-first-century Portuguese poet!

 
243. GONÇALVES, Manuel Fernando. Fechamos a alma, ao fim da tarde, com estrondo e animação. Lisbon: &etc., 2006. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 45 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 972-8539-91-7. $22.00

 
244. HORTA, Maria Teresa. Inquietude. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2006. Biblioteca "Uma Existência de Papel". Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 137 pp., (3 ll.). One of 500 copies. ISBN: 989-552-218-5. $28.00

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

 
245. LLANSOL, Maria Gabriela. Amigo e amiga, curso de silêncio de 2004. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2006. Colecção Arrábido, 5. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 253, (1) pp., (1 l.), single illus. in text. ISBN: 972-37-1099-4. $35.00

For a brief notice of this prize-winning author, see Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 272-4.

 
246. MENDONÇA, José Tolentino. A noite abre meus olhos [poesia reunida]. Posfácio by Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2006. Colecção Documenta Poetica, 107. 16°, orig. illus. wrps., textblock edges rouged. 237 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-37-1133-8. $30.00

The posfácio occupies pp. 213-29. The author has published several previous volumes of poetry, at least one collection of essays, and at least one play.
 

247. NOGUEIRA, Vítor. Senhor Gouveia. Lisbon: Averno, 2006. Averno, 013. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 36 pp., (2 ll.). One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $20.00

 
248. OSORIO, António. Casa das sementes: poesia escolhida. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2006. Colecção Documenta Poetica, 109. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 397 pp., (1 l.), bibliography. ISBN: 972-37-1151-6. $40.00

This volume includes an "Entrevista apócrifa" (pp. 7-14), signed Décima Aurora (1982). There is also an anthology of criticism of the author by João Gaspar Simões, Fernando Guimarães, David Mourão-Ferreira, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Eugénio Lisboa, Vasco Graça Moura, Eduardo Lourenço, Eduardo Prado Coelho, Eduardo Pitta, Carlos Reis, Fernando Pinto do Amaral, João Bigotte Chorão, and others (pp. 371-86). See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 355-6.

 
249. PACHECO, Fernando Assis. A musa irregular. 4th ed. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2006. Obras de Fernando Assis Pacheco. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 247 pp., (1 l.), frontisport. ISBN: 972-37-0883-3. $30.00

Originally published by Hiena Editora in 1991, this book also appeared in second and third editions, published by Edições Asa, in 1996 and 1997. The present edition is said to follow the first, incorporating manuscript corrections left in the possession of the author's family. Pacheco was born in Coimbra in 1937, and died in Lisbon in 1995. He published his first volume of poetry, Cuidar dos vivos, in 1963; in 1991 a collected volume of poetry appeared, complete as of that date. Trabalhos e paixões de Benito Prada (1993; 5th ed., 1996), a novel set in Coimbra in 1949, when General Franco was to receive an honorary degree, in which Benito Prado, the protagonist, is a Gallego from Casdemundo, was the author's first and only only full length work of fiction. His only other published work of fiction was a novella, Walt (1978).

 
250. PAÇO D'ARCOS, Anrique, pseud. [i.e Henrique Belford Correia da Silva, Conde de Paço de Arcos, 1906-1993]. Poesias completas. 2nd ed., revised and augmented. Introduction by António Cândido Franco. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 444 pp., (1 l.), illus. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1520-8. $45.00

First published by the Imprensa Nacional, 1993. The present edition contains six previously unpublished poems found among the author's papers, and a revised preface by António Cândido Franco, whose "Estudo crítico" had appeared in the previous edition. Omitted is the introductory note by José Miguel Júdice which appeared in the 1993 edition. The 1993 edition, in similar format, contained only 302 pp. See Alvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 359; Mário Garcia in Biblos, III, 1340-2; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses IV, 279-80.

 
251. PAÇO D'ARCOS, Anrique, pseud. [i.e Henrique Belford Correia da Silva, Conde de Paço de Arcos, 1906-1993]. Poesias completas. 2nd ed., revised and augmented. Introduction by António Cândido Franco. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, publ. cloth with color illus. tipped on to front cover. 464 pp., (1 l.), illus. One of 300 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1521-6. $80.00

Identical to the previous item, with the exception of the additional color illustration, the number of copies printed, ISBN, and binding.

 
252. PEREIRA, Helder Moura. Segredos do reino animal. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Poesia Inédita Portuguesa, 105. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 127, (1) pp. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-37-1194-3. $25.00

The author has published a a good number of previous volumes of poetry; a selection of his poems appeared in French, published in Brussels in 1995. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 373-4.
 

253. PESSANHA, Camilo. Clepsidra e outros poemas. Prefácio e fixação do texto: Daniel Pires. Rui Campos Matos, illus. Lisbon: Horizonte, 2006. Lge. 4° (28.8 x 22.6 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 96 pp., (1 l.), 16 full page and a few smaller illus. in text, mostly in color, notes. ISBN: 972-24-1498-4. $65.00

 
254. PESSOA, Fernando Mensagem. Preface by Richard Zenith. Illustrations by Pedro Sousa Pereira. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2006. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 139 pp., (1 l.), profusely and nicely illus. in color. ISBN: 989-555-250-5. $30.00

The interesting preface by Richard Zenith occupies pp. 7-16.

 
255. PESSOA, Fernando. Poesia, 1931-1935 e não datada. Maunela Parreira da Silva, Ana Maria Freitas, and Madalena Dine, eds. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2006. Obras de Fernando Pessoa, 22. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 647 pp., (4 ll.), index of first lines, chronological index. ISBN: 972-37-1072-2. $75.00

Includes 123 previously unpublished poems.

 
256. PESSOA, Fernando. Poesia do eu. Richard Zenith, ed. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2006. Obras Essencial de Fernando Pessoa, 2. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 510 pp., frontisport., endnotes, index of first lines. ISBN: 972-37-1122-2. $50.00

The editor's preface occupies pp. 11-22.

 
257. PESSOA, Fernando. Poesia dos outros eus. Richard Zenith, ed. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Obras Essencial de Fernando Pessoa, 4. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 478 pp., frontisport., endnotes, index of first lines. ISBN: 972-37-1124-0. $50.00

The editor's preface occupies pp. 13-28.

 
258. REDUTO, Margarida. Entre letras. Carnaxide: Primeiro Exemplar, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 102 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-99667-2-9. $28.00

Concrete poetical essays in "abcdario" form. The author was born in 1968; this appears to be her first book.

 
259. SOUSA, Luís Amorim de. Bellini e Pablo também. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Poesia Inédita Portuguesa, 104. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 51 pp., (6 ll.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-37-1198-1. $20.00

According to Alberto de Lacerda, in his preface to Amorim de Sousa's Ultramarino (1997), Luís Amorim de Sousa, a native of Angola, is one of the best living Portuguese-language poets. Also an author of fiction, he lived in Lisbon, Maputo, and London, where he worked for the BBC. From 1976 to 1995 he worked as the press officer at the Portuguese embassy in Washington, transferring then to Brasilia.

 
260. TAMEN, Pedro [Mário Alles, b. Lisbon, 1934]. Analogia e dedos. Lisbon: Oceanos, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 46 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-41-4878-5. $22.00

On the author, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 468; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 303-5.

 
261. TAVARES, Paula. Manual para amantes desesperados, poesia. Lisbon: Caminho, 2007. Colecção Outras Margins, 61. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 37 pp. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-21-1850-7. $18.00

Ana Paula Tavares, a native of Huíla, Angola (b. 1952), has published several volumes of poetry, including Dizes-me coisas amargas como os frutos (2001), which was awarded the Prémio Mário António de Poesia for 2004 by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. She has also published a novella written jointly with Jorge Marmelo, while her poetry and prose are represented in a number of anthologies published in Portugal, Brazil, France, Germany, and Spain.