Tiffany Granath Brad Norton

Lusitanian

Was held Friday, January 28 at the Literary Cafe Liberty , the Gallery Umberto Principe di Napoli, an interesting meeting origanizzato from ' Association Italy-Portugal, children about some of the most representative voices of poetry Lusitanian, over a period of time from late 800 until today.
Four poets, different in style and content, and little known in Italy, were then submitted to an attentive and concerned, so many good speakers, and experienced teachers of Portuguese literature.
The proposal was first poet Florbela Espanca She was born in Vila Viçosa, Alentejo, in 1894 and died in 1930 in Matosinhos. Absolute importance of the personality of his era, is considered an 'island', and the intense sensuality of his poetry, both in the sense of transfiguration of reality. He has published several books and other publications, including the tales "Domino Negro" are Portum. The poet Regina Célia Pereira da Silva, having introduced and briefly outlined the figure of Florbela Espanca , read some of his poems in Portuguese, then re-proposed in Italian by Marco de Iaia .
E 'was then given the poet Sophia de Breyner Andresen Mello, born in Oporto in 1919 and died in 2004. E 'considered the greatest contemporary Portuguese poet. Publishing many books and two prose texts, writes an essay on the antiquity classical and half a dozen translations of foreign poets, including Dante and Shakespeare. He speaks widely Iaia de Marco. Third
poet proposal Ana Hatherly, born in 1929 in Oporto, where he still lives and works. University lecturer, essayist, eclectic artist also devoted to the plastic arts. It occupies a prominent place in the landscape of experimental poetry. There is, in his writing, a joy and makes it's extremely inventive existential his original creations. The publication of poetry began in 1958, most recently in 2007. It depicts the life and works, reading some of his texts, Maria Luisa Cusati .
Finally, the proposed Carlota de Barros poet, born on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. In 1974, the year of Carnation Revolution, after much travel, he returned to Lisbon graduating. He made his debut in poetry in 2001. His most recent book is 2007. He speaks widely, reading excerpts of his works, Maria da Graça Gomes de Pina .

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