RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 63

August 2008

PART XVII:
Poetry


See also item 94, 156, 206 & 207.
114. AL BERTO, pseud [i.e. Alberto Raposo Pidiwell Tavares, 1948–1997]. Luminoso afogado. Rosa Carvalho, illus. Lisbon: Casa Fernando Pessoa / Edições Salamandra, 1995. Lge. 4° (22.5 x 21 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 52 pp., (3 ll.), including 20 full-page illus. ISBN: 972-689-084-5. $25.00
On the surrealist poet Al Berto, see Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 17-8.


115. ARCHILOCHUS [Paros, ca. 680-645 B. C.]. Fragmentos poéticos. Introdução, tradução e notas de Carlos A. Martins de Jesus. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2008. Biblioteca de Autores Clássicos. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 155 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l.), illus., footnotes, bibliography. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972–27–1673–4. $50.00
The introductory material occupies pp. 7-49.


116. AVELAR, Mário. Pela mão de Mussorgski numa galeria com anjos. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 2000. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 29 pp., (1 l.). One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00
The author was born in Lisbon, 1956. A university professor specializing in Anglo-American studies, he has published a number of books in this area. He has also published three books of poems, and has translated William Faulkner, Paul Selig, Sylvia Plath, Mary Renault, Virginia Woolf, Robert Lowell, Lewis Carroll, and Herman Melville. His first "romance", Pentâmetros jâmbicos, was published by Assírio & Alvim in 2008.


117. BAPTISTA, Amadeu. O claro interior. Rogério Ribeiro, illus. Preface by Emília Ferreira. Almada: Íman Edições, 2000. Coleção Alegrias Simulâneas. 4° (20 x 19.85 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 93 pp., 13 full page color illus. in text. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972-8665-32-6. $35.00
Awarded the Prémio de Poesia e Ficção de Almada, 2000 (Poesia). The author's illustrated volume of poems, O som do vermelho: tríptico poético sobre pintura de Rogério Ribeiro (2003) was awarded the Grande Prémio APE 2004. Born in Porto in 1953, Baptista has published at least 16 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 His unpublished "O claro interior" received the Prémio de Poesia e Ficção de Almada, 2000 (Poesia).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.


118. BAPTISTA, José Agostinho. Filho pródigo. Preface by António Fournier. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2008. Colecção Poesia Inédita Portuguesa, 113. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111, (1) pp., frontisport. ISBN: 978-972-37-1313-8. $30.00
The author has published a number of volumes of poetry. He has also translated Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and William Carlos Williams.


119. BESSA, C. Luís. Termómetro. Diário. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 1998. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 39 pp. One of 300 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00


120. BRAGA, Jorge de Sousa. O poeta nu. Lisbon: Fenda, 1991. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 168 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: none. $50.00
FIRST EDITION. The author has published at least 16 other books since 1981.


121. BRAGA, Jorge [de] Sousa. O poeta nu. 2nd ed.? Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Documenta Poetica, 113. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 340 pp., (5 ll. advt., 1 l. colophon). ISBN: 978-972-37-1191-2. $40.00
First published 1991. The author has published at least 16 other books since 1981.


122. CARVALHO, Silva. Mais ou menos. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 1998. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 55 pp. One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00
The author, born in Vila do Conde, 1948, has had published at least 17 volumes of poetry, five volumes on poetic language, two novels and a volume of essays. He has lectured at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Goa, and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 109.


123. CASTRIM, Mário, pseud. [i.e. Manuel Nunes da Fonseca, 1920-2002]. Do livro dos salmos. Desenhos de Rogério Ribeiro. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007. Colecção Campo da Poesia, 81. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 205 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-989-625-216-8. $35.00
The author was a native of Ílhavo. Teacher, writer and journalist, he wrote for the Diário de Lisboa from 1965. He wrote children's books, plays, as well as several volumes of verse.


124. DASILVA O., A., pseud. Coração sujo. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 1999. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 45 pp., (1 l.). One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00
The author has had published at least ten small books, mostly by Black Son and Edições Mortas. These are for the most part poems, but include at least two plays, a volume of literary theory, and at least two volumes of short fiction. He has also written for the literary supplement of Diário de Lisboa, and for the Dutch review Pose.


125. DASILVA O., A., pseud. Peidinhos. Porto: Edições Mortas, n.d. 12°, orig. gilt-stamped prtd. stiff wrps. (8 ll.), printed in blue ink on thick paper of high quality. ISBN: none. $30.00
Not in Porbase. We think this is probably an unjustified but very limited edition.


126. DASILVA O., A., pseud. Punhetas de Wagner. Porto: Edições Mortas / Casa Museu A. Dasilva O., 2004. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 14 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8313-40-3. $25.00


127. GOMES, Tiago. Bincadeiras com cianeto. Porto: Edições Mortas, 1998. Colecção de Lacraus, 8. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 37, (1) pp. One of 600 copies. ISBN: 972831307-1. $25.00
The author edits the magazine of avant-garde poetry, design and photography Biblia. He has written at least two other volumes of poetry.


128. GUERREIRO, Fernando. Gótico. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 1999. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 97 pp., (2 ll.), illus. One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $30.00
Born in 1950, the author has produced a number of volumes of poetry and literary theory.


129. GUERREIRO, Fernando. Grotesco. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 2000. Colecção The Impossible Papers. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 61 pp., (1 l.). One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00


130. HIPÓLITO, Nuno. As mensagens da Mensagem: o desvendar dos mistérios. Preface by Paulo Pereira. Lisbon: Parceria A.M. Pereira, 2007. Oblong folio (22.4 x 30 cm.), orig. prtd. wrps. 163 pp. CD tipped in. Printed in double columns, with the original poem printed in white on black in the right-hand columns of the rectos of the leaves. ISBN: 978-972-8645-38-0. $40.00
Appearing on the front cover, but not on the title page is the sub-sub title: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa anotada e comentada.


131. LEITE, Carlos. O desflashar dos espaços. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 1987. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 56 pp., (1 bland l., 1 l.), illus. One of 350 copies. Light browning. ISBN: none. $25.00


132. LETRIA, José Jorge. Sobre retratos. Preface (pp. 13-21) by Teresa Carvalho. Lisbon: Indícios de Oiro, 2008. Colecção Golpe d'Asa, 10 [sic; there is another book with the same number in this collection]. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 68 pp., color illus. tipped on to p. [7]. ISBN: 978-989-8106-04-9. $30.00
Awarded the Prémio de Poesia Nuno Júdice, 2007, by the Câmara Municipal de Aveiro. José Jorge Letria's A dúvida melódica was awarded the Prémio de Poesia Cidade da Amadora, 1993. Born in Cascais in 1951, he has published at least 34 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. His historical novella, Morro bem, salvem a pátria (2005), was set around the assassination of Sidónio Pais at the Rossio Station in Lisbon, December 1918. From January 1994 until January 2002 Letria was Vereador da Cultura for the Câmara Municipal de Cascais.


133. LIBERATO, pseud. [?]. Manual do desempregado. Porto: Edições Mortas, 2005. Colecção de Lacraus, 21. 12°, 47 pp. ISBN: 972-8313-48-9. $25.00
Not in Porbase.


134. MALDONADO, Fátima. Vida extenuada. Lisbon: &etc., 2008. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 61 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-8150-06-6. $30.00
The author has published five books of poetry from 1980 to 1991. These texts were collected together and published as Cadeias de transmissão (1996). She has also published Lava de espera (1996). On the journalist, literary critic and poet Fátima Maldonado (b. Santo Amaro de Vieira, Estremoz, 1941), see Álvaro Avelar Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 294; also Rita Taborda Duarte in Biblos, III, 394-6.


135. MENDES, Augusto Oliveira. Poemas dos aranhiços nos Olivais do Sul. Preface [in Galego] by Xulio L. Valcárcel. Poetic tribute to the memory of the author by António Cabrita (pp. 59-62). Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 2001. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 62 pp., (1 l.). One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00
The author was killed in a road accident on 24 December 2000. He had directed Canal: revista de literatura, and had contributed to the review Limiar.


136. PESSOA, Fernando. Mensagem. António Apolinário Lourenço, ed. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2008. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 203 pp., (1 ll.), footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-8827-45-8. $35.00
Introduction by the editor (pp. 13-65).


137. PESSOA, Fernando. Message. Pedro Sousa Pereira, illus. Translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by Richard Zenith. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2008. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 148 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-989-555-366-2. $35.00
The translator's introduction (pp. 7-18) is a masterpiece of succinct literary history and criticism.


138. PIMENTA, Alberto. Prodigiosa acanto. Lisbon: &etc., 2008. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 62 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-8150-05-9. $30.00
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.


139. PORTUGAL, José Blanc de (1914–2001). Quaresma abreviada. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 1997. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 29 pp. One of 300 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00
Previously unpublished poems. On the poet, music critic, and geologist José [Bernardino] Blanc de Portugal, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 390; Vera Borges in Biblos, IV, 361-3; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 555–7.


140. RESENDE, Manuel. O mundo clamoroso, ainda. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2004. Colecção Política dos Autores, 15. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 69 pp., (1 ll.), large multi-folding leaf with a concrete poem tipped into packet inside rear cover. ISBN: 972-8115-99-7. $35.00
The author, who has dedicated a good part of his life to poetry, was born in Porto, 1948. He has published Morta com desodorizante (Gota d'Água–Imprensa Nacional, 1983), and Em Qualquer lugar (&etc., 1997), as well as poems in reviews such as Arco Íris, Quebra-Noz, Limiar, DiVersos, and Inimigo rumor. He has also worked as a translator, especially of modern Greek poets, but also having translated Lewis Carroll and Shakespeare.


141. RIBEIRO, António Pedro. Saloon. Porto: Edições Mortas, 2005. Colecção de Lacraus. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 45 pp. ISBN: 972-8313-49-7. $25.00
The author was born in Porto, 1968. He has published at least two other volumes of poetry, and founded the review Aguasfurtadas.


142. SILVA, António Dinis da Cruz e. O Hissope: poema herói-cómico. Edição crítica de Ana María Garcia Martín e Pedro Serra. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2006. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Século XVIII. 4°, orig. prtd. wrps. 307 pp., illus., extensive footnotes and philological endnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 972-8827-35-0. $50.00
The rare first edition of this famous burlesque poem on the use of gallicisms appeared in 1802. Permission to print it in Portugal having been refused, it was printed instead in Paris, with a false imprint of London (so noted in the preface to the Paris, 1817 edition). The 1802 edition was forbidden to circulate in Portugal by an edict of 18 April 1803 issued by Pina Manique, Chief of Police in Lisbon, on the authority of Minister D. Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho; anyone who did not turn in his copy was subject to a 10-year exile in Africa. The second edition, Lisbon, 1808, was forbidden to be sold or circulated in September 1808, after the expulsion of the French, and is also rare. The third and fourth editions were printed in Paris, 1817 and 1821; Martins de Carvalho lists 24 editions by the early twentieth century.
Cruz e Silva based his poem on the quarrel between the bishop of Elvas, D. Lourenço de Lancastre, and the dean, D. José Carlos de Lara, which he witnessed first-hand while resident in Elvas from 1764 to 1774. Bell recounts the tale that Cruz e Silva "was summoned to read his satire to the all-powerful [Marques de] Pombal in the presence of the infuriated bishop, and that the poem proved too much for the gravity of the minister, who appointed him a judge in Rio de Janeiro (1776)" (Portuguese Literature pp. 273-4). O Hyssope was later a source of inspiration for Francisco de Mello Franco's well-known burlesque poem Reino da estupidez. Martins de Carvalho notes (p. 7) that many contemporaries considered O Hyssope "muito superior" to Pope's Rape of the Lock.
Born in Lisbon in 1731, Cruz e Silva studied law at Coimbra. He co-founded the Arcadia Ulyssiponense in 1756 and, while serving as a military judge, developed a formidable reputation as a lyric poet and satirist. Most of Cruz e Silva's poems remained unpublished until after his death in 1799.


143. SOUTO, Rui Carlos. Maneiras de andar. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 2001. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 46 pp., (1 l.). One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00


144. TORRES. Adelino. Uma fresta no tempo, seguida de ironias. Lisbon: Colibri, 2008. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 144 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972–772–804–6. $30.00
The author, a university professor, has written various books and has contributed many articles and other texts to newspapers and reviews, both in Portugal and abroad, among which are the Nouvelle Revue Française (Paris, éditions Gallimard), and Encontro, the review of the Gabinete Português de Leitura de Pernambuco.


145. TRAVANCA-RÊGO, J.O. Da poesia, dois segmentos. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 1999. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 44 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.). One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00
The author has published several volumes of poetry.


146. URBANO, João. Políbio: no jardim metafísico. Porto: Edições Mortas, 2003. Colecção de Lacraus, 16. 12°, orig. prtd. wrps. 79 pp. ISBN: 972-8313-34-9. $30.00


147. VENTURA, Dina. Nas asas do vento encontrei orixá. Casal de Cambra: Caleidoscópio, 2007. Sm. folio, orig. illus. wrps. 327 pp., color illus. in text, glossary, bibliography. ISBN: 978-989-8129-09-3. $45.00
The author was born in Monte-Estoril, 1954. The illustrations are of her paintings.


148. VINDEIRINHO. Domésticos. Lisbon: Black Son Editores, 2000. Colecção The Impossible Papers. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 36 pp., (2 ll. illus.). One of 350 copies. ISBN: none. $25.00


149. WHITE, Eduardo. Dos limões amarelos do falo às laranjas vermelhas da vulva. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2008. Colecção Instantes de Leitura, 94. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 53 pp. ISBN: 978-989-625-308-0. $25.00
The author, born in Quelimane, Moçambique, 1963, has published several volumes of poetry in his native country and in Portugal. He was awarded the Prémio Nacional de Poesia, Moçambique, 1995. His Pais de mim (1990) was awarded the Prémio Gazeta Revista Tempo; another work, Dormir com Deus e um navio na língua (2001) won the Prémio Consagração Rui de Noronha.




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