The songs of Antonio Botto / Antonio Botto ; translated [from the Portuguese] by Fernando Pessoa ; edited and with an introduction by Josiah Blackmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boto, António, 1897-1959.

Contributor:

Pessoa, Fernando, 1888-1935.

Blackmore, Josiah, 1959-

Standardized Title:

Poems. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portuguese poetry--20th century.

Portuguese poetry.

Boto, António, 1897-1959--Translations into English.

Boto, António.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; A Note on the Text of the Songs; Introduction: António Botto's Bruises of Light; THE SONGS OF ANTÓNIO BOTTO; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index of First Lines

Notes:

Original translation privately printed, 1948.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7494-9

OCLC:

688317389