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    Guernica &Other Poems
    Guernica &Other Poems
    Guernica &Other Poems
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    Guernica &Other Poems

    By Carlos De Oliviera

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    The writing of Carlos De Oliviera is usually considered neorealist, but this selection of poems also shows the influence of symbolism, surrealism, and cubism. These poems reflect on the nature of writing in the actual process of its production, which lends this work great density and acuity. {Guernica Editions}
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    ISBN9781550714180
    Guernica &Other Poems
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    Carlos De Oliviera

    Carlos De Oliviera is the author of 10 collections of poetry and five novels including Bee in the Rain. Alexis Levitin teaches at the State University of New York, Plattsburg.

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      Guernica &Other Poems - Carlos De Oliviera

      CARLOS DE OLIVEIRA

      GUERNICA AND OTHER POEMS

       ESSENTIAL POETS SERIES 118

      TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY ALEXIS LEVITIN

      GUERNICA

      Toronto – Buffalo – Lancaster (U.K.)

      2004  

      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Intoduction

      CANTATA

      Wind

      Mold

      Tear

      Sleep

      Hour

      Image

      Mist

      Fossil

      Stained Glass

      Childhood

      Psalm

      Flight

      Dictionary

      Sea

      Star

      Gold

      Landscape

      Enigma

      Flame

      ON THE LEFT SIDE

      Look Back in Anger

      An Instant

      Stars

      Afternoon

      Filling Station

      Collage

      Statue

      Carlos Drumond de Andrade

      Child’s Drawing

      Paper

      Door

      Edgar Allan Poe

      Cinema

      Dunes

      Lavoisier

      Fruit

      Fog

      Beaches

      On the Left Side

      MICROLANDSCAPE

      Stalactite

      Filter

      Trace

      Map

      Lichens

      BETWEEN TWO MEMORIES

      In the Hills of Antonio Machado

      Guernica

      River, Farewell

      High Jump

      PASTORAL

      Record

      Key

      Any Old Word

      Flock

      The Lighting of the Lights

      Peasants

      Reading

      Teeth

      Mountain

      Moss

      Acknowledgments

      First of all, I would like to thank Eugénio de Andrade, whose deep respect for Carlos de Oliveira encouraged my own admiration and helped lead me to the commitment of this book. I am also grateful to Gastão Cruz for his quiet confidence in the value of this project and the evident esteem for Carlos de Oliveira that he communicated to me. Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão befriended me many years ago and introduced me to the Café Nobre tertúlia, a literary circle that included Carlos de Oliveira’s widow, the gracious Ângela de Oliveira, who has kindly given her support to these translations. I remain profoundly thankful to Clara Pires, formerly of Montreal and now of New York, who, for twenty years, has been this translator’s guardian angel; without her none of my literary projects would have come to fruition. Last, but not least, I would like to express my gratitude to the Camões Institute, the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, the National Library and Book Institute of Lisbon, and Plattsburgh State University for their support of this project, as well as many earlier ones.

      Thanks are also due the editors of the following magazines in which many of the poems from this collection first appeared: Artful Dodge, Beacons, Cimarron Review, Confrontation, Controlled Burn, Cream City Review, The Dirty Goat, The Fiddlehead, Filling Station, Great River Review, Greenfield Review, Home Planet News, International Poetry Review, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, Luna, Marlboro Review, Metamorphoses, Mid-American Review, the new renaissance, Nimrod, Northwest

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