The Songs of António Botto

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By António Botto

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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 Featuring an introduction to Botto's work and Pessoa's previously unpublished foreword to the 1948 edition as well as a new translation of Botto's 1941 elegy to Pessoa, The Songs of AntÓnio Botto establishes Botto as a pioneering figure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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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 168
Release Date:: 2010-11-08
Publication Date:: 2010-11-08
Publisher:: University of Minnesota Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 081667101X
ISBN13:: 9780816671014
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 295 g
Height:: 124 cm
Width:: 201 cm
Thickness:: 20 cm

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