RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 66
April
2009
PART
XVIII:
Poetry
See also items 18, 68, 145, 156, 170, 246, 247 & 252.
171.
ALMEIDA, José António. O casamento
sempre foi gay e nunca triste. Lisbon:
&etc., 2009. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 54 pp., (3
ll.). ISBN: 978-989-8150-11-0. $25.00
This work of
prose and verse is dedicated "Ao pequeno grupo de católicos
com quem me reuni na Capela do Rato e na Capela dos Fiéis
de Deus para rezar e reflectir sobre a nossa condição
homosexual de 18 de Outubro de 2003 a 22 de Março de 2008".
The author has written four previous books. The
first, António
Nogueira, was
self-published in 1984. A small book of poems,
O rei de
Sodoma e algumas palavras em sua
homenagem, was published
by Presença in 1993. A mãe de
todas as histórias was published
by Averno in 2008, while a work of short fiction,
A vida de
Horácio, was published
by &etc. later in 2008.
172.
ALMEIDA, Palmira Morais Rocha de. Poetas
brasileiros do período colonial. Antologia I.
Lisbon:
Colibri, 2008. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 161 pp., (1 l.).
ISBN: 978-972-772-834-3. $30.00
173.
BAPTISTA, Amadeu. Os selos da
Lituânia. Lisbon:
&etc., 2009. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 76 pp., (2
ll.). ISBN: 978-989-8150-10-3. $25.00
Awarded the
Prémio Edmundo Bettencourt (ex
æqueo)—Cidade do
Funchal, 2008. The author's book of poems
O claro
interior (2000) was
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 17 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His unpublished "O claro interior" received the Prémio de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.
174.
CAMPINO, Flor. Pérolas de
vidro. / Perles de verre. Edição bilingue.
Porto:
Afrontamento, 2008. Poesia, 61. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
128 pp. Text in Portuguese and French. ISBN:
978-972-36-0915-8. $25.00
The author was
born in Tomar, 1934. Artist and poet, she has lived in
Paris since 1961. She published at least two previous
volumes of poetry, A aresta
das folhas. / L'ourlet des feuilles. Edição
bilingue (2000),
and O crivo dos
dedos (2006), both in
the present collection. Two other books [poetry?] were
published by Afrontamento: O
arco-iris (2001),
and A cabra
cabrita (2004).
175.
CESARINY DE VASCONCELOS, Mário. Louvor e
simplificação de Álvaro de Campos. Edição
fac-similada. Lisbon: Assírio
& Alvim, and Vila Nova de Famalicão: Fundação Cupertino
de Miranda, 2008. Lge. 4° (25.7 x 19.7 cm.), orig. prtd.
wrps. 8; 8 pp. in a stiff paper printed portfolio. One of
1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-37-1389-3. $35.00
Two similar
versions of the same rare pamphlet, originally published in
1953. The second contains a text by António Ramos Rosa on
the final page.
176.
CRUZ, Gastão. A vida da
poesia: textos críticos reunidos (1964-2008).
Lisbon: Assirio
& Alvim, 2008. Colecção Peninsulares, 92. 8°, orig.
prtd. wrps. 398 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN:
978-972–37–1364-0. $45.00
Gastão [Santana
Franco da] Cruz, born in Faro, 1941, 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;
also Jorge Fernandes da Silveira in Biblos,
I, 1406-7.
177.
FERRAZ, Eucanaã. Cinemateca.
Vila Nova da
Famalicão: Quasi, 2009. Biblioteca "Arranjos para Assobio".
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 100 pp., (4 ll., 2 blank ll.). ISBN:
978-989-552-276-7. $30.00
First
Portuguese Edition (originally published in São Paulo,
2008). Born in Rio de Janeiro, 1961, the author has
published in reviews and anthologies, as well as having at
least nine previous books to his credit, five of which were
books of poems. The 2002 Brazilian edition of his book of
poems Desassombro
(first
published by Quasi, 2001),was awarded the Prémio Alphonsus
de Guimaraens by the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.
At the time this volume appeared the author was professor
of Brazilian literature at the Universidade Federal do Rio
de Janeiro.
178.
GUIMARÃES, Fernando [de Oliveira]. Algumas das
palavras: poesia reundia, 1965-2008; com o livro
inédito Paixão e
Geometria. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2008. Biblioteca
Finita Melancolia. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 371 pp., (6
ll.). ISBN: 978-989-552-399-3. $50.00
Poet, essayist,
literary critic, and translator, born in Porto in 1928,
Fernando Guimarães has published at least seventeen volumes
of poetry, and thirteen 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.
179.
HELDER [Luís Bernardes de Oliveira], Herberto.
Ofício
cantante: poesia completa. Lisbon: Assirio
& Alvim, 2009. Colecção Documenta Poetica, 134. 8°,
publ. illus. bds. 623, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-972–37–1396-1.
$90.00
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."
180.
HORTA, Maria Teresa. Poesia
reunida. Preface by
Maria João Reynaud. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2009. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 849 pp., bibliography. ISBN:
978-972-20-2989-6. $75.00
The interesting
annotated preface occupies pp. 21-5. Previously unpublished
poems, "Feiticeiras", occupy pp. 823-48. 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.
181.
MACHADO, Álvaro Manuel. Silêncios.
Preface by
Fernando Guimarães. Porto: Afrontamento, 2008. Poesia, 62.
Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 67 pp. , (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-36-0927-1. $22.00
The author, a
native of Porto, is one of the leading literary historians
and critics active in Portugal today. The first in his
trilogy of novels, Exílio
(1978), was
awarded the Prémio Ricardo Malheiros by the Academia de
Ciências de Lisboa. Machado edited and organized the
extremely useful Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa (1996).
182.
MITELO, Maria Albertina. Uma leve
matéria. Porto:
Afrontamento, 2007. Poesia, 59. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
74 pp. ISBN: 978-972-36-0875-5. $22.00
This is the
author's third volume of poetry. Her two,
Entre
pássaros e o mar (2002), was
published in the same collection. She is a native of
Coimbra.
183.
NEJAR, Carlos. Pequena
enciclopédia da noite: poemas escolhidos.
Nota
introdutória de António Osório. Vila Nova da Famalicão:
Quasi, 2009. Biblioteca "Arranjos para Assobio”. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 108 pp., (6 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-552-392-4.
$30.00
Considered a
"poet of the Brazilian pampas", Carlos Nejar was born in
Porto Alegre. He has been widely translated, and there are
books about his work.
184.
PESSOA, Fernando. Forever
someone else: selected poems. Richard Zenith,
trans. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2008. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 287, (1) pp. Texts in Portuguese and English on
facing pages. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-37-1379-4.
$35.00
Introductory
note by the translator.
185.
SALGUEIRO, José António. Relatos de
uma vida. Preface by
Eduardo M. Raposo. Lisbon: Colibri, 2009. Tribuna Livre.
Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 283 pp., (1 l.), occasional
footnotes. ISBN: 978-972-772-867-1. $30.00
Autobiographical
poem by a respected musician.
186.
SALVADO, Gonçalo. Duplo
esplendor. Manuel
Cargaleiro, illus. Preface by Maria João Fernandes. Porto:
Afrontamento, 2008. Poesia, 63. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
110 pp. , (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 978-972-36-0983-7. $25.00
The author has
written at least three previous books of poems. They have
been well received by critics.
187.
SANTOS, Boaventura de Sousa. Escrita
INKZ: antimanifesto para uma arte incapaz.
Porto:
Afrontamento, 2007. Poesia, 60. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
245 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-36-0824-3. $32.00
Boaventura de
Sousa Santos truthfully describes himself as "um conhecido
cientista social e um poeta desconhecido."
188.
SANTOS, José da Cruz, ed. Em nome do
Pai: pequena antologia do Pai na poesia
portuguesa. Preface by
Vasco Graça Moura. Artistic direction by Armando Alves.
Porto: Modo de Ler, and Madrid: Prisa Innova, 2008. Lge.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 119, (3) pp., (1 l.) ISBN:
978-84-92482-20-7. $35.00
189.
SEIXAS, Artur do Cruzeiro. Obra
poética. Isabel
Meyrelles, ed. 3 volumes. Vila Nova da Famalicão: 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
África, 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).
190.
VIANA, Ana. Murmúrios
de um lugar branco. Preface by
Pedro Teixeira da Mota. Lisbon: Indícios de Oiro, 2009.
Colecção Minimezas, 10. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp.
ISBN: 978-989-8106-06-3. $25.00
The author of
the volume of poetic prose was born in Lisbon in 1962. She
has a Ph.D. in Educational Science from the University of
Lisbon, where she was a professor at the time this volume
appeared. She has published six volumes of poems, and has
also published another volume of poetic prose.
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