Bidspirit auction | POESIA E ENSAIO. Lisboa. 1965-1968.

POESIA E ENSAIO. Lisboa. 1965-1968. - POESIA E ENSAIO . Orientação gráfica de Espiga Pinto. Lisboa: Editora Ulisseia, 1965-1968. 11 [de 20] v.; 180 mm. A set of 11 volumes from the ”Poetry and Essay” collection, published by Editora Ulisseia between 1965 and 1968, with graphic design by the painter Espiga Pinto. ”Poetry and Essay” is unanimously considered one of the most significant literary collections of the 1960s in Portugal, both for the quality and coherence of its selection and for its graphic design. The collection brought together in a single editorial project contemporary Portuguese poetry of various trends – from surrealism to experimentalism, from neorealism to concrete poetry – critical essays, and texts of foreign literatures in translation, with special attention to literatures in Portuguese. The collection described here is representative of the diversity and ambition of the series. Among the titles included, the following stand out: A Proposição 2.01 Poesia Experimental by EM de Melo e Castro (no. 2), one of the founding texts of experimental poetry in Portugal; Feira Cabisbaixa by Alexandre O'Neill (no. 6); Estou Vivo e Escrevo Sol by António Ramos Rosa (no. 11); O Seu a Seu Tempo by Luíza Neto Jorge (no. 13); Praça da Canção by Manuel Alegre (no. 18), published in the year the author was in exile; and Sentido e Forma da Poesia Neo-Realista by Eduardo Lourenço (no. 20), the closing essay of the collection. Titles included in the collection: 1. José Blanc de Portugal, Pedestrian Odes, preceded by Auto Poética ; 2. EM de Melo e Castro, The Proposition 2.01 Experimental Poetry ; 3. Raul de Carvalho, Poetry 1949-1958 ; 6. Alexandre O'Neill, Downcast Fair ; 9. Armando da Silva Carvalho, Consumable Lyric ; 10. Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, Poetry, Program for the Concrete ; 11. António Ramos Rosa, I Am Alive and I Write Sun ; 13. Luíza Neto Jorge, His in His Time ; 15. Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Realism: Avant-garde Art and New Culture ; 18. Manuel Alegre, Song Square ; 20. Eduardo Lourenço, Sense and Form of Neo-Realist Poetry . ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate