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The Songs of António Botto

Autor António Botto Traducere de Fernando Pessoa Editat de Josiah Blackmore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 noi 2010
António Botto was one of Portugal's first openly gay writers, a poète maudit whose unapologetic and candid verses about homosexual life and passion were both praised and reviled when they appeared in Portuguese in 1922 under the title Canções. Botto's poetic voice-confessional, personal, and intimate-revels and luxuriates in eroticism while expressing the ache of longing, silence, and suffering. Yet for all of his acclaim and notoriety-he was both hailed as one of the great poets of his day and condemned for his frank depictions of male-male desire-Botto and his work fell into oblivion after his death.

The Songs of António Botto recovers this important, urgent voice in modern poetry by making available-for the first time since its private publication in 1948-the English-language translation of Canções that Botto's friend and artistic collaborator, Fernando Pessoa, completed in 1933. Pessoa, Portugal's preeminent modernist literary figure, considered Botto the only Portuguese poet worthy of the label "aesthete" and, as a critic and publisher, championed his work. Featuring an introduction to Botto's work and Pessoa's previously unpublished foreword to the 1948 edition as well as a new translation of Botto's 1941 elegy to Pessoa, The Songs of António Botto establishes Botto as a pioneering figure in modern gay literature and places him alongside C. P. Cavafy and Federico García Lorca as one of the major poetic voices of the twentieth century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816671014
ISBN-10: 081667101X
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press

Notă biografică

António Botto (1897-1959) published more than twenty volumes of poetry, short stories, children's tales, and dramas during his lifetime. He worked as a civil servant in colonial Angola and Lisbon until, in 1942, he was dismissed from his post for lacking "moral character." In 1947, he emigrated to Brazil with his wife. He was fatally struck by a car in Copacabana in 1959.

Cuprins

Contents
Introduction: António Botto's Bruises of Light
A Note on the Text of the Songs
The Songs of António Botto
Foreword by the Translator
I. Boy
II. Curiosity
III. Small Sculptures
IV. Olympiads
V. Dandyism
VI. Birds in a Royal Park
VII. Motifs
VIII. Sad Songs of Love
To the Memory of Fernando Pessoa
Acknowledgments
Notes to the Introduction
Editor's Notes to The Songs of António Botto
Selected Bibliography
Index of First Lines

Recenzii

"In Antonio Botto’s poems, the mouth trembles, kisses, lies, tells the truth, bites, bleeds, laughs, pleads, and sings, while the hand writes it all down trying to create something beautiful out of the dirty silences that surround unsanctioned love and sex. Even reading the poems a half century after they were written, one feels the flesh burn." —Henri Cole

Descriere

The rediscovery of a major voice in modern gay poetry and twentieth-century letters.