RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 67

November 2009



PART XIX:
Poetry


See also items 2, 11, 12, 56, 57, 143, 178, 191, 197, 205, 210, 213, 214, 215, 218, 224, 228, 231, 232, 233, 286, 290, 299, 362, 363, 364, 365 & 377.
245. ANDRADE, Irene Lucília. Água de mel e manacá. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2002. Colecção Autores da Madeira, Poesia, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 101, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-972-610-528-2. $20.00
Book of poetry divided into seven sections titled: "A Cidade - 1.o dia"; "O Subúrbio - 2.o dia"; "O Retrato - 3.o dia"; "As Águas - 4.o dia"; "A Casa - 5.o dia"; "O Canto - 6.o dia"; "O Círculo - 7.o dia". The author was born in Funchal, Madeira in 1938.


246. BAPTISTA, José Agostinho. O pai, a mãe e o silêncio dos irmãos. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2009. Poesía Inedita Portuguesa, 114. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 202 pp., (3 ll.). One of 750 copies. ISBN: 978-972–37–1418-0. $35.00
The author has published sixteen of volumes of poetry. His Anjos caídos (2003) was awarded the Prémio PEN for poetry; his Esta voz é quase o vento was awarded the Grande Prémio APE / CTT for poetry. He has also translated Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and William Carlos Williams into Portuguese.


247. BARCELOS, Isabel Aguiar. Anjos de asas verdes. Ponta Delgada: Editorial Éter, 1995. Mutationes Lunae. Tall 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 43 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-755-016-9. $18.00
Poems with Azores as the main theme.


248. BOCAGE, [Manoel Maria Barbosa do]. Antologia poética. Selection and introduction by Maria António C. Mourão and Maria Fernanda P. Nunes. Lisbon: Verbo, 2006. Verbo Clássicos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 426 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-22-2939-5. $30.00


249. BRAGA, Jorge Sousa. Herbário. 3rd ed. Cristina Valadas, illus. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007. Colecção Assirinha, 2. Lge. 4° (23.15 x 24.6 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 57 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-972–37–0549-2. $35.00
First published 1999; the second edition appeared in 2002.


250. BRANCO, Rosa Alice. O mundo não acaba no frio dos teus ossos (pensa ela). Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2009. Biblioteca Uma Existência de Papel. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 58 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-552-406-8. $30.00
The author has published at least five other volumes of poetry, and contributed to the Journal de Letras, Análise, and Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto. A member of the Grupo de Estudos de Semiótica e Poética do Porto, she was among those responsible for the review Figuras, and has worked on the staff of the review Limiar. She edited the volume Declaração universal dos direitos linguísticos (2001), and co-edited, with Egito Gonçalves, an anthology of poems, Das tripas ao coração (2001), issued in connection with Porto 2001, Capital Cultural da Cultura.


251. CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de. Ls Lusíadas. Apresentaçon an banda zenhada por José Ruy. Traduçon par mirandés por Fracisco Niebro. Lisbon: Âncora Editora, 2009. Folio (30.4 x 21.7 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 136 pp., profusely illus. in color, in comic book fashion. ISBN: 978-972-780-230-2. $60.00
Fracisco Niebro is a pseudonym for Amadeu José Ferreira, born in Sendim, Miranda do Douro, 1950. He was a visiting professor at the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa at the time this volume appeared, has been President of the Associaçon de Lhéngua Mirandesa since 2000, as well as having written various books in Mirandês, and translated works into the language. Besides the Lusíadas, his translations include classical Latin authors such as Horace, and Virgil, and more.
José Ruy was born in Amadora, 1930. He studied at the Faculdade de Belas Artes in Lisbon under a number of important painters. His work has been published in 11 languages, and he has had exhibitions in various European countries, Brazil, China and Japan. He was the first author to be awarded the Prize of Honor at the Festival de Banda Desenhada da Amadora, in 1990. The following year he was given the Medalha Municipal de Ouro de Mérito e Dedicação by his native city.


252. CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de. Os Lusíadas. Narrados aos jovens por José Jorge Letria. Terumi Moriyama, illus. Alfragide: Oficina do Livro, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111, (1) pp., much illus. in color. ISBN: 978-989-555-475-1. $40.00


253. CAMÕES, Luís [Vaz] de. Poesia lírica. Selection and introduction by Isabel Pascoal. Lisbon: Verbo, 2006. Verbo Clássicos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 262 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-22-2943-2. $30.00


254. CHINITA, Filipe. Gente povo todo o dia. Leitura por Fernanda Lapa. Posfácio de Manuel Gusmão. Lisbon: Avante!, 2009. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 238 pp., CD tipped in. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-550-339-3. $40.00


255. CHINITA, Filipe, and Manuel Gusmão. Cantata pranto e louvor em memória de Casquinha e Caravela. Lisbon: Avante!, 2009. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 81 pp. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 978-972-550-349-2. $25.00
Dialogue in verse. Casquinha was António Maria Casquinha, and Caravela was José Geraldo "Caravela". According to the statement at the beginning of this volume, they were assassinated by machine gun fire of the GNR on 27 September 1979 in Montemor-o-Novo, and to this day those responsible have not been brought to justice.


256. CRUZ, Gastão. Os poemas [1960-2006]. Introduction by Luis Maffei. Posfácio by Gastão Cruz. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2009. Documenta Poetica, 121. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 390 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. There is also a "Tiragem Especial" of 50 copies, signed by the author and numbered. ISBN: 978-972–37–1332-6. $65.00
The annotated introduction, titled "A experiência de um poeta vivo: agora, Gastão" occupies pp. 11-31. The posfácio, titled "Trinta e cinco anos de poesia (1960-1995)", originally appeared as the introduction to the author's Poemas reunidos, published by Dom Quixote, 1999 (pp. [362]-372 in the present volume). 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.


257. FERREIRA, António. Castro e poemas lusitanos. Introduction and notes by Silvéria Augusto Benedito. Lisbon: Verbo, 2006. Verbo Clássicos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 331 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-22-2944-9. $30.00


258. FINO, Carlos Nogueira. Funchal. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. Colecção Autores da Madeira, Poesia, 7. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 102 pp., (1 l., 1. advt.). ISBN: 978-972-610-901-2. $25.00
The author was born at Évora in 1950 and has been a resident of Funchal, Madeira since 1959. He has a doctorate in education from the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, and at the time this volume appeared was working as a professor in the Ciências da Educação department at the Universidade da Madeira. He is the author of several previously published books of poetry. His xxiii poemas de ilhamar (1987) won the Prémio Leacock in 1987 and arco e promontóio (1997) won the Prémio cidade do Funchal Edmundo de Bettencourt de Poesia in 1996.


259. FREITAS, Manuel de, ed. A perspectiva da morte: 20 (-2) poetas portugueses do século XX. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2009. Colecção Grãos de Pólen, 8. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 430 pp., (1 l. colophon). One of 1,000 copies. There is a "Tiragem Especial" of 50 copies, signed by the author and numbered. ISBN: 978-972–37–1301-5. $65.00
The editor's preface occupies pp. 9-13. Poets selected for this anthology are Vitorino Nemésio, Ruy Cinatti, Jorge de Sena, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Carlos de Oliveira, Eugénio de Andrade, António Manuel Couto Viana, Mário Cesariny [de Vasconcelos], Herberto Helder, António José Forte, Fernando Assis Pacheco, Armando Silva Carvalho, Luiza Neto Jorge, A.M. Pires Cabral, Fátima Maldonado, António Franco Alexandre, Manuel Gusmão, and José Amaro Dionísio.


260. GOMES, Tiago. Auto-ajuda. Lisbon: Mariposa Azual, 2009. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 185 pp., (1 l. colophon). One of 500 copies. ISBN: 978-972-8481-13-1. $30.00
The author edits the magazine of avant-garde poetry, design and photography Biblia. He has written at least three other volumes of poetry.


261. HATHERLY, Ana, ed. A Preciosa de Sóror Maria do Ceu. Edição actualizada do Códice 3773 da Biblioteca Nacional precedida dum estudo histórico. Lisbon: Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica, 1990. Literatura, 17. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. cxxxv, 370 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: 972-667-148-5. $50.00


262. LOPES, Adília. Dobra: poesia reunida, 1983-2007. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2009. Documenta Poetica, 127. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 680 pp., (4 ll.), 1 illus., author's notes. One of 1,000 copies. There is also a "Tiragem Especial" of 50 copies, signed by the author and numbered. ISBN: 978-972–37–1349-7. $80.00
The author has published at least twenty-three 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.


263. LOURENÇO, M.S. (1936-2009). O caminho dos pisões. João Dionísio, ed. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2009. Documenta Poetica, 131. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 687 pp. ISBN: 978-972–37–1363-3. $80.00
On the poet, philosopher, essayist, translator and university professor M.S. [Manuel António dos Santos] Lourenço, see Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 282-3; Miguel Tamen in Biblos, III, 253-5; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 387-8.


264. LUÍS, Carlos Teixeira. Histórias do deserto. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Atelier, 2009. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 94 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-8957-68-1. $25.00
The author was born in Lisbon, 1966. This is his second book. It contains some short fiction as well as poems.


265. MARQUES, Álvaro. Todas as contaminações. Lisbon: Atelier Produção Editorial, 2009. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 60 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-8957-56-8. $25.00
The author has published several earlier books of poems.


266. MATOS, Maria Vitalina Leal de. Incandescências. Lisbon: Colibri, 2009. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 56 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-772-839-8. $22.00


267. MATOS, Maria Vitalina Leal de. Uma pequena voz (1996-2002). Lisbon: Colibri, 2009. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 74 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-772-838-1. $22.00


268. MENDES, Maria da Saudade Cortesão. O desdobrar da sombra, seguido de Fragmentos de um labirinto. Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2009. Colecção Sopro, 8. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 51 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-8063-37-3. $30.00
The author was awarded the Prémio Fábio Prado de Poesia, São Paulo, 1952. Portuguese woman married to the Brazilian poet Murilo Mendes, she spent a great part of her life outside Portugal, accompanying her father, Jaime Cortesão, into exile in Paris, where she was educated, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro, where she met her husband. Beginning in 1957, for 18 years she lived in Rome, where her home was a point of reference for writers and artists. She was a friend of Albert Camus, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Luciana Stegagno Picchio, Sophia de Mello Breyner, and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. She translated Shakepeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral into Portuguese from the English, and an anthology of texts by Murilo Mendes from Portuguese to French.


269. MENDONÇA, José Tolentino. O viajante sem sono. Lisbon: Assrío & Alvim, 2009. Poesía Inedita Portuguesa, 115. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 56 pp., (4 ll.). There is a "Tiragem Especial" of 50 copies, signed by the author and numbered. ISBN: 978-972–37–1440-1. $25.00
The author has published several volumes of poetry, at least one collection of essays, at least one play, and Pentateuco: pintura de Ilda David' (2007).


270. MIRANDA, [Francisco de] Sá de. Poesia e teatro. Introduction by Silvério Augusto Benedito. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Verbo Clássicos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 351 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-22-2907-4. $30.00


271. MORAIS, Nuno [Henrique] Rocha. Últimos poemas. Preface by Joana Matos Frias. Rosa Sakalaité, illus. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2009. Biblioteca Uma Existência de Papel. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 142 pp., (5 ll.), 4 ll. color plates, printed on both sides. ISBN: 978-989-552-409-9. $40.00
The author was born in Porto, 1973, and died in Luxembourg in 2008. He worked as a jounalist for Comércio do Porto, and as a translator for the Departmento de Língua Portuguesa for the European Commission in Luxembourg, and was named coordinator of this Department shortly prior to his death. He contributed to various newspapers and reviews. This appears to be his only book.


272. NEMÉSIO, Vitorino Obras completas. Volume I: poesia, 1916-1940. 2nd ed., revised. Luiz Fagundes Duarte, ed. Prologue by Luiz Fagundes Duarte. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2006. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 363 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 972-27-1459-7. $45.00
First published 1989 under the editorship of Fátima de Freitas Morna. The present editor has provided a new preface (pp. 15-27).


273. NEMÉSIO, Vitorino Obras completas. Volume II, tomo 1: poesia, 1950-1959. 2nd ed., revised. Luiz Fagundes Duarte, ed. Prologue by Luiz Fagundes Duarte. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2007. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 503 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 978-972-27-1535-5. $60.00
First published 1989 under the editorship of Fátima de Freitas Morna. The present editor has provided a new preface (pp. 17-30).


274. NEMÉSIO, Vitorino. Obras completas. Volume II, tomo II: Poesia, 1963-1976. Luiz Fagundes Duarte, ed. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2009. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 457 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l. colophon). ISBN: 978-972-27-1672-7. $70.00


275. NOBRE, António. Só. Introduction by Maria Ema Tarracha Ferreira. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Verbo Clássicos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 301 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-22-2889-3. $30.00


276. NOGUEIRA, Vítor. Mar largo. Lisbon: &etc., 2009. Sm. 4°, orig. illus. wrps. 51 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-8150-16-5. $30.00
The author has published at least two previous volumes of poetry.


277. OSÓRIO, António. A luz fraterna, poesia reunida (1965-2009). Preface by Eugénio Lisboa. Interview of the author with Ana Marques Gastão. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2009. Documenta Poetica, 137. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 653 pp., (1 l.), 1 illus., ample bibliography. One of 1,000 copies. There is also a "Tiragem Especial" of 50 copies, signed by the author and numbered. ISBN: 978-972–37–1430-2. $90.00
There is 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, José Jorge Letria, Pedro Mexia, Carlos Reis, Fernando Pinto do Amaral, Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, and others (pp. 623-33). See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 355–6.


278. PATRÍCIO, Tiago. O livro das aves. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2009. Biblioteca Uma Existência de Papel. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 51 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-552-404-4. $30.00
Awarded the Prémio Daniel Faria, 2009. The author was born in Funchal, 1979, and grew up in Trás-os-Montes. He began to publish poems in anthologies for young writers in 2007 and 2008.


279. RESENDE, Garcia de. Antologia do Cancioneiro. Selection and introduction by Maria Ema Tarracha Ferreira. Lisbon: Verbo, 2006. Verbo Clássicos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 569 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-22-2939-5. $30.00


280. RESENDE, Garcia de. Cancioneiro geral de Garcia de Resende. Fização de texto e estudo por Aida Fernanda Dias. 4 volumes. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1990–1993. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. xviii pp., (1 blank, 1 l.), 498 pp., (1 blank, 1 l.); (1 blank, 3 ll.), 473 pp., (1 l.); (1 blank, 3 ll.), 402 pp., (1 l.); (1 blank, 3 ll.), 409 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,300 copies. ISBN: volumes I & II: none; volumes III & IV: 972-27-0581-4. 4 volumes. $225.00
The text of the present edition is based on the copy of the first edition (1516) in the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, supplemented by the facsimile edition published by the Hispanic Society of America (1904), and the copy [A] of the 1516 edition in the Biblioteca da Ajuda. See also item 232 in this Bulletin for volume V, A temática; and item 15 in this Bulletin for volume VI, a Dicionário (comum, onomástico e toponímico), compiled by Dias.


281. RIBEIRO, M.[anuel Rodrigues]. Dicionário da desconstrução. Volume I: Crónicas do encanto. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Atelier, 2009. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 165 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 978-972-8957-61-2. $40.00
The author, a native of Vila Velha de Ródão, has been awarded prizes for his painting as well as his poetry, and has three mixed volumes of poems and art to his credit. His first individual exhibition of paintings was held in the Palácio Foz, Lisbon, in 1972.


282. RODRIGUES, António Madureira. A potência do meio dos nós. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2009. Biblioteca Uma Existência de Papel. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 65 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-552-405-1. $30.00
Awarded Honorable Mention in competition for the Prémio Daniel Faria, 2009. The author was born in Braga, 1977. A Jesuit (entered the order in 2006), he studied sculpture at the Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, and has worked as a librarian.


283. SÁ-CARNEIRO, Mário de. Poesias. Introduction by Maria Ema Tarracha Ferreira. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Verbo Clássicos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 355 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-22-2938-8. $30.00


284. SOARES, Albino Orlando, Manuel Ferreira Moutinho, and Padre Mário de Oliveira, eds. Poetas somos: Aurora de poetas. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2008. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 178 pp., (2 l.), 11 full page color illus. in text. ISBN: 978-989-625-339-4. $30.00
This anthology of poems has brief introductory texts by Nuno Higino, Henrique Silva, and Padre Mário de Oliveira. Verses included are by Innocêncio Vidal, Tiago Redondo, Nuno Higino, António Barbosa Topa (3), Regilene Rodrigues Neves (2), Manuel Maria (2), Albino Soares (4), Vicente Cândido (2), Padre Mário de Oliveira (2), Manuel Neves, Helisa Maria, Conceição Bernardino, Rosa Melo, Eduardo Jorge (2), Nelson Ferraz, Maria Melo, Milú Almeida (2), Maria Celia Bach (2), José Fontinha, José Augusto de Carvalho, Rui Manuel G. Neves, Otília Martel, Tomás Ferreira, Carlos M. Barros, José Santos Pinto, Vido Costa, Carlota D'Aires (3), Carmo Bomfim, Helisa Maria,Vítor Vicente, João Santos, Armando Fernandes, Amadis de Gaul, Mabali, Carmo Vasconcelos, Libânia Madureira, Devans, Juvenal Oliveira (2), Sandra Batista, Arual, Luís Brito Pedroso, Nelson Ricardo, Mariana Mourente, José Duarte, Marcelo Torca, Moisés Salgado, Micá, Rui Carlos, Paulo Ferreira, and AP.


285. VERA, António. Amor sempre e a seguir, poemas. Preface by José Fernando Tavares. Lisbon: Colibri, 2009. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 184 pp, (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-772-862-6. $30.00
The preface occupies pp. 7-13. The author, born in Lisbon, 1923, has written seven previous volumes of poetry. On [José]António Vera [de Azevedo], see Dicionário de autores portugueses, V, 307.





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