RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 61
April
2008
PART
XVI:
Poetry
See also item 85.
65.
CRUZ, Liberto [da Fonseca Ribeiro da]. Gramática
histórica. 2nd ed.,
revised and augmented. Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2007. Colecção
Casa de Cultura. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 139 pp. ISBN:
978-989-8063-16-8. $35.00
First published
Funchal: Livros CF, 1971, using the author's pseudonym,
Álvaro Neto. The original preface by Haroldo de Campos is
reproduced, and there is a new preface for the present
edition by João Fernandes. This edition also contains an
introductory note signed both by Álvaro Neto and Liberto
Cruz. Poet, essayist, literary critic and translator, born
in Sintra, 1935, the author was professor at French
universities from 1967 to 1988. He also served as cultural
attaché at the Portuguese embassy in Paris from 1975 to
1988. In 1961 he founded the literary review
Sibila,
and from 1964 to 1966 edited the series "Poesia e Ensaio"
for Ulisseia. From 1965 to 1966 he was literary critic for
the Jornal de
Letras e Artes. At least ten
volumes of his poetry have been published, including
Jornal de
campanha (1986), which
was awarded the Prémio de Poesia da Cidade de Lisboa. He
has also had at least six volumes of essays published. See
Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos,
I, 1407-8; and Dicionário
cronológico de authores portugueses, VI, 329-30.
66.
ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud. [i.e. P. Francisco Manuel do
Nascimento, 1734-1819]. Obras
completas de Filinto Elísio . . . . De acordo coma segunda
edição, Paris, Na Oficina de A. Bobée, 1817, com o retrato
e assinatura do autor. Fernando
[Alberto Torres] Moreira, ed. 11 volumes. Braga: APPACDM,
1998-2001. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século
XVIII, 4, 26, 36, 52, 71, 82, 91, 98, 105, 114, and 121.
8°, orig. prtd. wrps. xliv, 414; xv, 289 pp., (2 ll.); xv,
513; xvi, 402; xxiv, 406; xxxiv, 483; xxiv, 322; xxiii, 394
pp.; port., xxv, 308 pp.; port., xxv, 340 pp.; port., xxxi,
460 pp. One of 1,000 sets. ISBN: 972-8424-27-2 (complete
work); 972-8424-28-0 (vol. I); 972-8424-29-9 (vol. II);
972-8424-30-2 (vol. III); 972-8424-31-0 (vol IV);
972-8424-32-9 (vol. V); 972-8424-33-7 (vol. VI);
972-8424-34-5 (vol. VII); 972-8424-25-3 (vol. VIII);
972-8424-36-1 (vol. IX); 972-8424-37-X (vol. X);
972-8424-38-8 (vol. XI). 11
volumes. $400.00
These eleven
volumes are based on the edition of Paris, 1817-1819.
Filinto Elísio was the pseudonym in the arcadia of Father
Francisco Manuel do Nascimento, who fled the Inquisition in
1778, living most of the rest of his life in Paris, where
he died in 1819. See Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, p.
175; Dicionário
cronológico de authores portugueses, I, 543-4. See
also item 25 of this bulletin.
67.
GANCHO, António. O ar da
manhã: O ar da manhã; Gaio do espírito; Poemas digitais;
Poesia prometida. Lisbon: Assirio
& Alvim, 1995. Peninsulares / Literatura, 47. 8°, orig.
prtd. wrps. 175 pp. ISBN: 972–37–0380–7. $25.00
68.
MATEUS, António. Selva
urbana. Preface by Ana
Paula Guimarães. Lisbon: Colibri / IELT, Instituto de
Estudos de Literatura Tradicional, Faculdade de Ciências
Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2007. a
IELTsar se vai ao longe, 19. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
275 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972–772–768–1. $38.00
The author was
born in Castelo Branco, 1960. He began working as a
journalist for O
Globo in 1982, and
has served as chief of delegations for NP and Lusa in
Maputo and Johannesburg from 1986 to 2003. In 1996 he
worked as coordinator for programs and information at
RTPÁfrica. He has also collaborated with the BBC, Voice of
America, RDP, the review Visão,
and the weekly newspaper Expresso.
This appears to be his first book.
69.
MELO [or MELLO], D. Francisco Manuel de (1608-1666).
Obras
métricas. Maria Lucília
Gonçalves Pires and José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho, eds.
2 volumes. Braga: APPACDM, 2006. Obras Clássicas da
Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVII. Sm. folio (27.7 x 20.5
cm.), orig. prtd. wrps. in publisher's printed box. lxvii,
432 pp.; [2 ll.], pp. [433]-1028. Footnotes. Texts in
Portuguese and Spanish. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN:
972-8699-64-6. 2
volumes. $125.00
The present
text is based on the Lyon, 1665 edition, which was never
reprinted. The heavily annotated introductory matter
includes an introduction by the editors (pp. [xi]-xiii);
"Tempos e modos da edição lionesa das Obras
Métricas", by Luís de
Sá Fardilha (pp. xv-xxii); "Ecos literários nas
Obras
Métricas", by Maria
Lucília Gonçalves Pires (pp. xxiii-xxviii); "O cenceito de
poesia de D. Francisco Manuel de Melo", by Zulmira C.
Santos (pp. xxix-xxxvi); "A poesia religiosa de D.
Francisco Manuel de Melo", by Fernando Moreira (pp.
xxxvii-xli); "Poesia y música", by Ana Martínez Pereira
(pp. xliii-xlix); and "Poesia de circunstância e
circunstâncias sociais", by José Adriano de Freitas
Carvalho (pp. li-lxiv). There is also a detailed
explanation of the criteria for both the Portuguese and
Spanish texts of the present edition.
D. Francisco Manuel de Mello not only led a romantic and
adventurous life but established himself as a major figure
in Portuguese and Spanish literature, ranking with Quevedo
among seventeenth–century Iberian writers. Born into the
highest Portuguese nobility, he began both his military and
literary careers at the age of 17. Shipwrecked near St.
Jean de Luz in 1627 while sailing with a Hispano-Portuguese
armada protecting an American treasure fleet (he was forced
to supervise the burial of more than 2,000 who perished),
he was sent with the Conde de Linhares to quell the Évora
insurrection in 1637, fought in the battle of the Downs in
1639, and the following year took part in the campaign
against the Catalan rebels. In 1640, suspected of favoring
an independent Portugal, he was thrown into a Spanish jail.
Only a few years later (1644), when he returned to
Portugal, he was imprisoned in turn by D. João IV, some
said on a charge of murder, others said because he was D.
João's rival for a lady's affections. The year 1655 saw him
deported to Bahia, but in 1658 he was pardoned, recalled
from exile, and sent on the first of several important
diplomatic missions. Not until he reached his forties did
he publish his first work in Portuguese: the
Carta de
guia de casados (1651), one of
the great classics of Portuguese prose. According to Bell,
"No literary figure in Portugal of the seventeenth century,
few in the Peninsula, can rank with Francisco Manuel de
Mello (1608-66), the leading lyric poet and prose writer of
his time."
70.
PEIXINHOS, [Maria] Rita. Ironias.
Preface by
Joaquim Francisco Soeiro Torrinha. Lisbon: Colibri, 2007.
Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 58 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972–772–778–0. $20.00
The author,
born in Vila Viçosa, 1948, lived in the region of Zambézia,
Moçambique, from 1991 to 1995. She began to publish poems
in 1969 in O
Calipolense, and
contributed to various regional newspapers of the Alentejo.
In 1989 she was awarded literary prizes for her short
stories at Redondo, Alfabeta, and the Gulbenkian
Foundation.
71.
PULQUÉRIO, Isabel. Horas do
tempo. Preface by
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues. Chamusca: Cosmos , 2004. Lge. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 126 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-762-258-7.
$25.00
The author has
been writing poetry since the 1950s, and has been awarded
various literary prizes, including, in 1991 the XII Prémio
de Poesia da Cidade de Ourense, Galiza, for
Poemas de
alma e sol, the Prémio
Conde Monsaraz, Évora, 1967, for Tudo e
eu, the Prémio de
Revelação de Poesia (SNI), Lisboa, 1969 for
Degraus da
terra. Her
Salto na
luz, was published
in Ponta Delgada, 1993 in an edition funded by the Câmara
Municipal da Ilha do Corvo. João Gaspar Simões, Urbano
Tavares Rodrigues, and David Mourão-Ferreira have praised
her poems. The review Vertice
(nº
99, January / February 2001) had an article by Adelaide
Batista analyzing her poetry.
72.
PULQUÉRIO, Isabel. Poemas de
brincar. Preface by
Alice Vieira. Malangatana, illus. Chamusca: Cosmos , 2004.
4° (19.5 x 20.9 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 67 pp., (1 l.).,
23 full-page illus., 9 in color. ISBN: 972-762-259-3.
$25.00
73.
SARAIVA, Arnaldo, ed. A poesia
das Beiras, antologia. Preface by
Arnaldo Saraiva. Porto: Caixotim, 2007. Colecção Antologias
do Caixotim. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 125 pp., (1 l.), illus.
ISBN: 978-989-8100-11-5. $35.00
Includes poems
by D. Afonso X, Airas Peres Vuituron, João Rodrigues de
Castelo Branco, Gil Vicente, Luís de Camões, Diogo
Bernardes, Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Brás Garcia de
Mascarenhas, Fr. António das Chagas, Francisco Joaquim
Bingre, Domingos Gonçalves Perdigoto, Soares de Passos,
Tomás Ribeiro, Manuel Alves, Adolfo Portela, António Nobre,
Alberto Osório de Castro, Augusto Gil, Afonso Lopes Vieira,
António Correia de Oliveira, Branca de Gonta Colaço,
Cardoso Marta, Afonso Duarte, José Monteiro, Mário Beirão,
António Alves Martins, Vitorino Nemésio, Pedro Homem de
Melo, Miguel Torga, Carlos de Oliveira, Eugénio de Andrade,
António Salvado, Fernando Assis Pacheco, Luís Miguel Nava,
and anonymous popular poets.
74.
SILVA, José Miguel, and Manuel de Freitas.
Walkmen.
Lisbon:
&etc., 2007. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 35 pp., (2
ll.). ISBN: 978-989-8150-01-1. $20.00
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