RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 60

February 2008




PART XVII:
Poetry


See also items 3, 5, 38, 99, 154, 172, 173, 174 & 175.
110. AL BERTO, pseud [i.e. Alberto Raposo Pidiwell Tavares, 1948–1997]. Degredo no sul. Selecção e prefácio, Paulo Barriga. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Documenta Poetica, 116. 8°, publ. buckram with d.j. 126 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972–37–1224-7. $25.00
See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 17-8.


111. BARBOSA, Miguel. A nau catrineta naufragada no amor. Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2007. Colecção Casa de Poetas, 18. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 62 pp. ISBN: 978-989-8063-13-7. $25.00
This multi-faceted dramatist, novelist, poet, and painter (born Lisbon, 1925), was awarded the Grand Prize for Poetry "Moulin de l'Ecluse," 1993, Carnac, France. His writings have been translated into English, French, and Italian. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 390-3.


112. BOCAGE, [Manuel Maria l'Hedoux de Barbosa du (1765-1805)]. Obra completa. Volume I: Sonetos. Daniel Pires, ed. Porto: Caixotim, 2004. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII, 112. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 422 pp, (2 ll.), port. ISBN: 972-8651-46-5. Volume I . $50.00
Daniel Pires has devoted his usual graceful erudition and serious hard work to the thorny problem of Bocage. Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805), an accomplished Arcadian poet (known as Amano Sadino) with strong romantic tendencies, wrote a great deal of occasional verse. Bell thought he was capable of much greater things. The poet was an infantry soldier, but deserted at Damão and spent some time wandering through China, Macau and Goa before returning to Portugal. Tried and imprisoned on the basis of the anti-monarchical and anti-Catholic tone of his poems, when he was released he spent the rest of his life mostly doing translations, at which he was quite skilled. His work has always remained in print, though often in questionable editions. Always popular, Bocage has been gaining the esteem of critics. The present groundbreaking edition is by far superior to anything that came before. As of late 2007, only the first, second, third and seventh volumes had appeared.


113. BOCAGE, [Manuel Maria l'Hedoux de Barbosa du (1765-1805)]. Obra completa. Volume II: Cantatas, cançoes, idílios, epístolas, odes e cantos. Daniel Pires, ed. Porto: Caixotim, 2005. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII, 132. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 359, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-8651-84-8. Volume II. $38.00


114. BOCAGE, [Manuel Maria l'Hedoux de Barbosa du (1765-1805)]. Obra completa. Volume III: Apólogos ou fábulas morais, epigramas, poesia sobre mote, poesia anacreôntica, endechas, elegias, epicédios. Daniel Pires, ed. Porto: Caixotim, 2007. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII, 154. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. xxvi, 278 pp., (1 l.), frontisport., footnotes. ISBN: 978-972-8651-84-8. Volume III. $40.00


115. BOCAGE, [Manuel Maria l'Hedoux de Barbosa du (1765-1805)]. Obra completa. Volume VII: Poesias eróticas, bulescas e satíricas. Daniel Pires, ed. Porto: Caixotim, 2004. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII, 112. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 245 pp, (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8651-64-3. Volume VII . $45.00


116. BRITO, Casimiro [Cavaco Correia] de. Arte de bem morrer, com um ensaio de João Barrento, "Um corpo é algo que vem de muito longe". Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2007. Colecção Sopro, 5. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 135 pp. ISBN: 978-989-8063-17-5. $28.00
The essay by Barrento occupies pp. 129-33. It is about Brito's Livro das quedas (Ars moriendi). Casimiro de Brito, born in Loulé in 1938, has had over twenty books published, including much poetry and a significant amount of fiction. He has won several prizes for his poetry. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 83-4.


117. CESARINY, [Mário (de Vasconcelos)]. Poemas de Mário Cesariny. Escolhidos e ditos por Mário Cesariny. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 76 pp., (2 ll.). CD tipped in. ISBN: 978-972–37–1223-0. $45.00


118. GAMA, Sebastião da. Estevas. Introduction by António Manuel Couto Viana, António Osório, and Luís Amaro. Brief note by Armando Alves. Even more brief "Agradecimento" by Joana Luísa da Gama. Mem Martins: Edições Arrábida, 2004. Obras de Sebastião da Gama, 10. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 100 pp. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-799-041-X. $25.00
The poet and teacher Sebastião [Artur Cardoso] da Gama was born in Vila Nogueira de Azeitão, 1924, and died in Lisbon, 1952. Three volumes of his poetry appeared during his lifetime; seven volumes of additional poems, letters, a diary, etc., have been published posthumously. See José Augusto Seabra in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 210-1; Maria de Lourdes Belchior in Biblos, II, 763-5; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 340-1.


119. GAMA, Sebastião da. Não morri porque cantei … Quadras de Sebastião da Gama. Introdução, transcrição e edição de Mariagrazia Russo. Recolha dos manuscritos por Joana Luísa da Gama. Mem Martins: Edições Arrábida, 2003. Obras Completas de Sebastião da Gama, [9]. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 127 pp., footnotes, endnotes, illus., tables. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-799-022-3. $25.00


120. GUIMARÃES, Fernando [de Oliveira]. Na voz de um nome. Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2006. Colecção Sopro, 4. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 102 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8490-87-9. $28.00
A poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator, born in Porto in 1928, Fernando Guimarães has published at least eight volumes of poetry, and twelve volumes of essays. He has edited at least five volumes, including poetry, fiction, and essays, and has translated poems of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hugo von Hofmannstal, Dylan Thomas, and Elaine Feinstein. He has been most active both as an editor and as a contributor to literary reviews. See José Augusto Seabra in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 234-5; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 591-2; and Celina Silva in Biblos, II, 931-2.


121. LLANSOL, Maria Gabriela. O cantores de leitura. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Arrábido, 6. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 282 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-37-1271-1. $38.00
On the prize-winning author Maria Gabriela Llansol [da Cunha Rodrigues], born in Lisbon, 1931, see Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 272–4; also Manuel Gusmão in Biblos, III, 204-5; and especially Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 72-4.


122. LOPES, Adília. Caderno. Lisbon: &etc., 2007. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 29 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-8539-99-3. $25.00
The author has published about twenty books, including a number of volumes of poetry, as well as at least one volume of literary criticism. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, and German. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies.


123. LOURENÇO, Inês. A disfunção lírica. Lisbon: &etc., 2007. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 59 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-8539-98-6. $25.00
The author, born Porto, 1942, has published at least 6 previous volumes of poetry. Her work has also been included in anthologies and literary reviews; some of her poems have appeared in French and Spanish translations in reviews published in France and Spain. She has also been the series editor for Cadernos de Poesia published by Hifen, of which 13 volumes had appeared as of 2000.


124. MESQUITA, Jorge Vilhena. O sentimento da ausência. Águas Santas: Edições Sempre-em-Pé, 2005. UniVersos, Poesia, 2. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 129 pp., (1 l.), small photograph of the author in text. ISBN: 972-8870-04-3. $25.00
The author was born in Porto, 1960. At the time this volume was published he was living in Brussels. He was one of the four founders of the review Di Versos: [revista semestral de] poesia e tradução.


125. NOGUEIRA, Vítor. Bagagem de mão. Lisbon: &etc., 2007. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 50 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-8539-96-2. $25.00


126. OLIVEIRA, José Alberto. Nada tão importante, que não possa ser dito. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Poesia Inédita Portuguesa, 111. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 77 pp., (1 l. colophon). One of 750 copies. ISBN: 978-972-37-1263-6. $25.00
The author has published at least five previous volumes of poems. He has also translated works by W.H. Auden, Frank O'Hara, Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Li Shang-yin and Mark Twain into Portuguese.


127. OLIVEIRA, José Alberto. O que vai acontecer? Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 1997. Peninsulares / Literatura, 51. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp. ISBN: 972–37–0431–5. $22.00


128. PESSOA, Fernando. Poesia Inglesa. Richard Zenith, ed. Luísa Freire, trans. [from the English]. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Obras Essencial de Fernando Pessoa, 6. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 511 pp., frontisport., endnotes. Text of poems in English and Portuguese on facing pages. ISBN: 978-972-37-1126-4. $60.00
The editor's preface occupies pp. 9-36.


129. PIMENTA, Alberto. Planta rubra. Lisbon: &etc., 2007. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 41 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-8539-97-9. $25.00
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 Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 380; Maria Irene Ramalho in Biblos, IV, 144-8; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 451-2.


130. Poemário. 2008. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. [369 ll.]. ISBN: 978-972-37-1246-9. $25.00


131. RODRIGUES, David. Estações sentidas. 111 Haiku. Preface by Gonçalo M. Tavares. Introduction by the author. Lisbon: Indícios de Oiro, 2007. Colecção Golpe d'Asa, 10. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 137 pp., 1 full page illus. tipped in. ISBN: 978-989-8106-02-5. $25.00


132. SILVA, Manuela Parreira da. Entre cão e lobo. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Poesia Inédita Portuguesa, 110. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 93 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 978-972-37-1248-3. $22.00
The author has published one other volume of poetry, O álbum de Vishnu. She has edited two volumes of letters by Fernando Pessoa, as well as six other volumes in the series Obras Completas de Fernando Pessoa, and a volume of letter by Mário de Sá-Carneiro to Pessoa. She has also published a book about the letters of Fernando Pessoa, and has translated the poems of Victor Hugo into Portuguese.


133. VARA, Flávio. A bem soada gente. Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2007. Colecção Casa de Poetas, 17. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 89, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-989-8063-08-3. $25.00
The author is said to be a native of Trás-os-Montes, having published O espantalho da praxe Coimbrã (1958), which it is claimed caused him to be "excommunicated" from the University there.


134. VERA, António. Estrofes elementares. Preface by José Fernando Tavares. Lisbon: Colibri, 2007. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 175 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-772-739-1. $28.00
The author, born in Lisbon, 1923, has written six previous volumes of poetry. On [José]António Vera [de Azevedo], see Dicionário de autores portugueses, V, 307.


135. VERDE, [José Joaquim] Cesário (1855–1886). O livro de Cesário Verde. Pedro Sousa Pereira, illus. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 171, (6) pp., profuse with lovely color illus. ISBN: 989-555-325-9. $35.00
Brief introduction by Sousa Pereira. On Cesário Verde, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 491–3; J.C. Seabra Pereira in Biblos, V, 691-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 379–86; Saraiva and Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), pp. 966–9; 973, 975–6, 1007–9; et passim, and Grande enciclopedia XXXIV, 650–2.