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TERRA (José). CANTO da Ave Prisioneira: Poemas. Lisboa. 1949. - TERRA (José) CANTO da Ave Prisioneira: Poemas . Lisboa: Edição do autor, 1949. 44 pp.; 240 mm. First and only edition. Debut book by José Terra (pseudonym of José Fernandes da Silva, 1928-2014), seized by the censorship of the Salazar regime due to the libertarian content of the poems. Despite the seizure, the volume circulated and was received with attention by critics - Mário Dionísio wrote a review in Vértice and Alfredo Guisado in República - and represents the starting point of a poetic work that would develop throughout the 1950s, with José Terra as co-founder of the magazines Árvore (1951-53) and Cassiopeia (1955) and author of Para o Poema da Criação (1953), Canto Submerso (1956, Teixeira de Pascoaes Prize) and Espelho do Invisível (1959). Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate