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A Centenary Pessoa
Carcanet 2012; US$ 29.09Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying: ... mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is Pessoa?' asks Octavio Paz. This collection of the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) answers that question. It is an essential introduction to the work... more...
The Poetry of Alfonso X
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 115.00This expanded version of a 1977 annotated bibliography on the poetry of King Alfonso X of Spain (1221-1284) contains five times as many entries and covers the poetry, the art and the music of the 'Cantigas de Santa Maria' as well as the king's lesser-known profane poetry. more...
Studies in the Literary Achievement of João Guimarães Rosa, the Foremost Brazilian Writer of the Twentieth Century
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 179.95This collection of centenary conference essays examines and analyzes the literature of João Guimarães Rosa and his impact on literature. more...
The Alphabet in the Park
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 12.99Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women. more...
Selected Poetry, 1937-1990
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 13.99Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time. more...
The Poetry and Prose of Rosalía de Castro
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 169.95This is the most thorough and representative volume of poetry and prose from Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885) ever translated into English. The book contains a comprehensive Introduction that provides essential information about the Galician land and language, supernatural spirits and shadows so significant in Rosalía de Castros works,... more...
Small Memories
Random House 2009; US$ 12.00Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, José Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence, its river landscape and olive groves... more...
Why This World
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's art was directly... more...
Selected Sonnets
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 19.00The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524–80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Championed by such influential English poets as William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and admired in America... more...
The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00The Portuguese fiction that awakened public debate on imperialism more...









