Fernando Pessoa’s other nation 1 June 2010 “My nation is the Portuguese language,” Fernando Pessoa famously wrote in The Book of … |
Translating Camões 1 January 2007 Luís Vaz de Camões (1524?-1580) wrote poetry in many different forms (he also wrote three plays), … |
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - April 2006 1 April 2006 I remember how in the late 1980s, when I moved to Portugal, if I was shopping for a shirt, the … |
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - January 2006 1 January 2006 “There’s no accounting for taste,” people sometimes say to “explain” the inexplicable phenomenon … |
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - April 2005 1 April 2005 It would be hard to imagine two poetic personalities as different from each other as Vasco Graça … |
Eugénio de Andrade: A Translator’s View 3 February 2005 Music is the central concern of Andrade’s poetry, discovered his translator Alexis Levitin after … |
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Welcome to Portuguese poetry - January 2005 1 January 2005 The two poets we are presenting to kick off the new year at Poetry International – Carlos de … |
A word of welcome to first-time visitors 1 October 2004 “Portugal is a land of poets.” This statement is so often made by the Portuguese in books, … |
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - October 2004 1 October 2004 For the Fall quarter we are presenting two poets from Oporto, the ‘other’ major hub of Portuguese … |
Nuno Júdice’s Meditations on Life’s Ruins 30 June 2004 Poetry as observation and reflection, without higher purposes, a species of “psychological and … |
Gravitas Poetica in the Work of Paulo Teixeira 30 June 2004 Paulo Teixeira’s poetry is unique in the Portuguese panorama for being intensely concerned with … |
Welcome to Portuguese poetry - April 2004 1 April 2004 "Portugal is a land of poets." This statement is so often made by the Portuguese in books, … |
In the Name of Things 31 March 2004 A personal view on Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, by her translator Richard Zenith. “Poetry,” … |
Critics on the work of Manuel Gusmao 1 January 2004 Manuel Gusmão’s second book of poetry proves what we already knew: that his is one of the great … |