Modern Portuguese Poetry

Edited by Paulo de Medeiros and Rosa Maria Martelo

Portuguese Studies 36.2

Modern Humanities Research Association

4 November 2020

ISBN: 978-1-781888-91-9 (paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-839541-07-0 (paperback)  •  RRP £15, $20, €16.99

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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.

Besides seven critical chapters the book also contains a selection of poems by Adília Lopes, Ana Luísa Amaral, António Franco Alexandre, Gastão Cruz, José Miguel Silva, Manuel de Freitas, Margarida Vale de Gato, and Rui Pires Cabral in the original and with translations by Richard Zenith, Margaret Jull Costa, Alexis Levitin, Rui Pires Cabral, Martin Earl, Ana Hudson, and Jeffrey Childs.

Contents:

129-131
Introduction
Rosa Maria Martelo, Paulo de Medeiros
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132-146
Of Literature as a Composition of the Disparate and its Political Implications
Silvina Rodrigues Lopes
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147-159
Some Portuguese Poetry from the Past Fifty Years: A Reading through Images
Rosa Maria Martelo
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160-176
The Chant of Images: Fiama and Indifference
Joana Matos Frias
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0160
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177-189
A Selfless Proliferating Language
Manuel Portela
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0177
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190-205
Blood Evocations: Subversion, Resistance, and Afterimage in Ana Luísa Amaral's Ágora
Paulo de Medeiros
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0190
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206-219
Last Will(s): Withdrawal and Resistance in the Poetry of José Miguel Silva
Pedro Eiras
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220-236
‘Neither Man nor Woman’: Ana Luísa Amaral's Queerful Poetics
Marinela Freitas
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238-241
A minha casa; Um espelho; A solidão; A Perfeição? A Viagem?
Adília Lopes, Richard Zenith
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0238
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242-247
Sintomas e síndromes; Prece no Mediterrâneo; O vento
Ana Luísa Amaral, Margaret Jull Costa
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0242
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248-253
Poems from Moradas
António Franco Alexandre, Richard Zenith
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0248
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254-257
Poems from Observação do Verão; Poems from Fogo
Gastão Cruz, Alexis Levitin
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0254
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258-265
Na Feira do Livro II; A Minha Musa; Para Agradar a Uma Sombra; Ladrões de Bicicletas; Chuva de Pedras
José Miguel Silva, Richard Zenith
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0258
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266-269
Tardes de Província, Herança(s), Bicicletas
Manuel de Freitas, Rui Pires Cabral
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0266
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270-277
Talvez a Injeção Letal; Condições Mínimas; A Imagem Romântica; Termas e Cabaret
Margarida Vale de Gato, Martin Earl
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278
Collage poems from Oh! Lusitania
Rui Pires Cabral
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283-286
Review of Gilda Santos, Persona
Paulo de Medeiros
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0283
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286-290
Review of Alberto Pimenta, Zombo
Lúcia Liberato Evangelista
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290-292
Review of Adília Lopes, Sofia de Sousa Silva, Aqui estão as minhas contas: antologia poética
Jerónimo Pizarro
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292-294
Review of Ana Luísa Amaral, Marinela Freitas, Do corpo: outras habitações: identidade e desejos outros em alguma poesia portuguesa
Ana Filipa Prata
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0292
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294-296
Review of Manuel de Freitas, Mariano Marovatto, Ubi Sunt
Ida Alves, Barbara Tannuri
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0294
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297-301
Review of Manuel Resende, Poesia Reunida
Ricardo Vasconcelos
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0297
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302-306
Abstracts
Paulo de Medeiros, Rosa Martelo
doi:10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0302
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