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    Lisbon Poets. Camões, Cesário, Sá-Carneiro, Florbela, Pessoa
    Lisbon Poets. Camões, Cesário, Sá-Carneiro, Florbela, Pessoa
    Lisbon Poets. Camões, Cesário, Sá-Carneiro, Florbela, Pessoa
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    Lisbon Poets. Camões, Cesário, Sá-Carneiro, Florbela, Pessoa

    By Luís de Camões, Cesário Verde, Mário de Sá-Carneiro and

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    This bilingual and illustrated edition offers to all English-speaking readers interested in poetry, and in the cultural legacy of Lisbon, verses written by great poets who were born or lived in Portugal's legendary capital city.
    The globally celebrated Luís de Camões and Fernando Pessoa, along with the latter's heteronyms, are joined by three other poets widely praised within the Portuguese-speaking world—Cesário Verde, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, and Florbela Espanca—, whom we have the pleasure of introducing to you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShantarin
    Release dateJul 1, 2023
    ISBN9789895394654
    Lisbon Poets. Camões, Cesário, Sá-Carneiro, Florbela, Pessoa

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      Lisbon Poets. Camões, Cesário, Sá-Carneiro, Florbela, Pessoa - Luís de Camões

      Contributors to this edition

      Martin D’Evelin arrived in Portugal in 1995 and spent a great deal of his professional life working there, principally for the British Council in Lisbon. He has also lived and taught in Spain, England, the Czech Republic, and Belgium. But it was whilst in Lisbon that he attained his Licentiate in teaching adults as a second language. As a young man he had a great interest in poetry and literature in general and this in turn led to the publication of some of his own works in his early twenties. Apart from language books, in all their forms, he is passionate about horse racing and politics. Language and politics intertwined in the research he conducted to conclude a Master’s programme in Diplomacy and International Relations at Lancaster University.

      Martin Earl is a poet and translator who lives in Coimbra. His translations include Fernando Pessoa’s Message (2020). His poetry has appeared most recently in Nervo/10 – Colectivo de Poesia, translated by Margarida Vale de Gato.

      André Carrilho is a designer, illustrator, cartoonist, animator and caricature artist, born in Lisbon, Portugal. He has won several national and international prizes and has shown his work in group and solo exhibitions in Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Spain and the USA. In 2002 he was awarded the Gold Award for Illustrator’s Portfolio by the Society for News Design (USA), one of the most prestigious illustration awards in the world. His work has been published by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Standpoint, Independent on Sunday, NZZ am Sonntag, Word Magazine, Harper’s Magazine and Diário de Notícias, among other publications.

      www.andrecarrilho.com

      Cláudia Pazos-Alonso is Professor of Portuguese and Gender Studies at the University of Oxford. She has published several books that range widely across Lusophone literature and culture from the nineteenth century onwards. Her first monograph was titled Imagens do Eu na poesia de Florbela Espanca (1997) and her latest Francisca Wood and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture. Pressing for Change (2020). In addition to collaborations with multiple academic journals as guest editor, she is also jointly responsible for editions of Florbela Espanca (Estampa) and Judith Teixeira (Dom Quixote) and for introductory essays to the English translations of prose works by António Pedro and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. She has served two terms as Vice-President of the International Association of Lusitanists (2014–2020).

      Foreword

      Lisbon Poets Revisited

      Afinal, a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir

      The best way to travel, after all, is to feel

      Fernando Pessoa

      Lisbon boasts some beautiful monuments and distinctive features, be it the impressive Torre de Belém or the iconic yellow trams that meander through its hills. Yet equally remarkable is the cultural landscape associated with this historical capital.

      The present anthology gathers under one roof five distinctive voices, which between them span a period of nearly five centuries. Camões and Pessoa may hardly need an introduction, given their notoriety as giants of world literature. Cesário, Sá-Carneiro and Florbela are equally compelling, although for a long time they remained less accessible for want of English translations. All three cult poets died young, the first of tuberculosis in 1886, the other two by taking their own lives in 1916 and 1930 respectively. To a greater or lesser extent, their premature demises may have fuelled the myth of misunderstood geniuses. Moreover, their published poetic oeuvre, while approachable in terms of size and readable in terms of content, was profoundly innovative. This enticing blend led to a wide readership in Portugal, spreading further afield.

      Of the five writers brought together here, perhaps the one most frequently associated with Lisbon is Pessoa. So it may come as a surprise to some readers to discover that he spent nearly ten of his formative years in South Africa, where his stepfather was posted as consul in Durban. His life trajectory may in turn explain the English title of the poem chosen to close the anthology—‘Lisbon Revisited’—and furthermore give special resonance to the line ‘I do not know which uncharted southern islands await my shipwreck’. Even more well-travelled than the bilingual Pessoa, however, was the 16th century Luís de Camões, who famously experienced a real shipwreck, but managed to rescue the manuscript of The Lusiads. The fact that his epic poem, recounting the sea voyage of Vasco da Gama to India, was written outside Europe was a first for the period.

      Both poets were instrumental in furthering Portugal’s collective identity as a seafaring nation, both at home and abroad. In the case of Pessoa, this facet most obviously occurs in Message, the only Portuguese collection he published in his lifetime. The present selection showcases two pieces: ‘The Prince’, a poem about Henry the Navigator, who was credited for paving the way for the European maritime explorations; and ‘Portuguese Sea’, a bittersweet reflection that draws attention to the human cost of the overseas expansion, yet still goes on to glorify the endeavour.

      While both Camões and Pessoa came to stand as Portugal’s representative national poets, other aspects of their vast literary output equally contributed to cement their deserved fame and rich afterlives. Camões’ love-poetry, cloaked in beautifully wrought Petrarchan sonnets, is strikingly modern in feeling. As for Pessoa, the phenomenon of his dizzying array of alternative personalities means that he has long been regarded as a textbook case of modernity. In particular, the mindfulness of Alberto Caeiro, a shepherd-cum-philosopher, stands out as one of a kind, in contrast to the existential restlessness of Álvaro de Campos.

      Of those featured in this anthology, Cesário is arguably the most acute observer of Lisbon, where he was born and bred in the second half of the 19th century. Adopting a Baudelaire-like flâneur stance, he takes in and paints everyday sights. His masterpiece is surely ‘The Feeling of a Westerner’, explicitly written to mark the tricentenary of Camões’ death in 1880. Far from indulging in nostalgia or glorification, this long poem is critical of the social situation in Portugal, where the bourgeoisie is shown to coexist with stark everyday working-class poverty in the modern capital. Informed by Cesário’s Republican ideals, it is an evocative tour de force.

      Sá-Carneiro—similarly to Cesário, his predecessor, and Pessoa, his close friend and contemporary—was born in Lisbon. Unlike them, however, he shunned Portugal as a young adult, in favour of belle époque Paris. In the cosmopolitan city of lights, artistic modernity was in full swing prior to the outbreak of the First World War. For Sá-Carneiro, tortured by his quest for the self and identity, the war that soon erupted around him and forced him back to Lisbon was almost incidental. His claim to modernity hinges on his queer sensibility, perhaps most suggestively expressed in the transgressive ‘To be a Woman’. His gender-bending and elevation of failure to an art form is exquisitely crystallised in the famous verse ‘I am neither myself nor the other’.

      Florbela, of the five, is the poet that spent least time in the capital, yet Lisbon was certainly the making of her as a writer.

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