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Modern Portuguese Poetry: Essays, Poems and Translations
The present volume assembles, for the first time in English, a wide range of poetic voices and critical perspectives that illustrate the vibrancy and richness of contemporary Portuguese poetry. Special attention is given, in seven chapters, to the relations between poetry and the visual arts, to questions of gender, politics, language, and resistance. While aiming to make a unique contribution to Portuguese Studies, this book also invites scholars engaged in questions of Poetics across the board, to enter into a fresh dialogue.
Poems to Ana
Poems to Ana is a book written by a man for a woman, with all the love that this world allowed him to have for her. Here presented in a bilingual Portuguese - English edition, these are poems written for, but also dedicated to, a woman when everything was far from perfect in her life. This small compilation contains completely honest verses, both truthful and beautiful, which were written with all the loyalty and compassion possible to a man. More than love poems, or friendship ones, these are poems in which each word was written with the honesty of trying to cheer up whoever is having a bad period in their lives. Compiled across months and originally published as a gift to Ana in her birthday, this is a book of poems for the Ana that exists in every woman, by a man who, more than anything in this world, wanted to make her smile, and which is here now available in bilingual form, for every English-speaker who is either trying to learn Portuguese, or just wants a beautiful poetry book written an ocean away.
The Poems of Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa is one of Portugal's most important contemporary poets, having written under several identities. This volume brings back into print the collection of work published by Ecco Press in 1986.
The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusíads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões, the award-winning translator of The Lusíads gives English readers the first comprehensive collection of Camões's sonnets, songs, elegies, hymns, odes, eclogues, and other poems--more than 280 lyrics altogether, all rendered in engaging verse. Camões (1524-1580) was the first great European artist to cross into the Southern Hemisphere, and his poetry bears the marks of nearly two decades spent in north and east Africa, the Persian Gulf,...
Portuguese: Poems
The first book in a series of collaborations between Tin House and Octopus Books, Brandon Shimoda's Portuguese introduces a powerful new voice in American poetry. The poems in Portuguese began while Brandon rode city buses around Seattle, and were inspired by his fellow passengers—their voices and their minds, their faces and their bodies, their exuberances and infirmities, and the ways in which they enlivened and darkened the days at once. It was with and within these people that poetry seemed most alive. At the same time, they began as responses to the words and writings of visual artists, mostly painters, whom Brandon was reading while riding the bus, especially Etel Adnan, Eugene Delac...
113 Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems
The poetry of the Provencal troubadours has been widely appreciated this century, but most modern readers of English are unaware of the trovador tradition on the Iberian Peninsula. Some 1,685 cantigas (sung poems), written in Galician-Portuguese between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, survive in several cancioneiros (song books). The language of the cantigas reflects the vernacular spoken along the Minho river dividing Portugal from Galicia. It was the idiom of lyric poets in every Peninsular region except Catalonia. One of the two main types of love songs is the fascinating cantiga d'amigo, derived from an oral tradition native to the peninsula and narrated from the woman's point of view. Satirical songs, on the other hand, provide insights into the history and politics of the day, or else take delight in pure invective and ribald fun far more daring (some would say 'vulgar') than the work of poets of our own day.
