Bidspirit auction | TERRA (José). CANTO Submerso. Lisboa.

TERRA (José). CANTO Submerso. Lisboa. 1956. - TERRA (José) CANTO Submerso . Lisboa: Portugália Editora, 1956. 60, [8] pp.; 210 mm. First edition. Canto Submerso earned its author the ”Teixeira de Pascoaes” Poetry Prize in 1955. José Terra (pseudonym of José Fernandes da Silva; Lisbon, 1928-2014) was one of the founders of the magazine Árvore (1951-1953), one of the most important publications of Portuguese poetry in the 1950s, and co-founder of the magazine Cassiopeia (1955), a space where his generation mediated contact with contemporary French poetry - René Char, Paul Éluard - and established itself between neo-realism and new aesthetic proposals. In Submerged Song, the tone becomes elegiac, evoking the weight of the Salazar dictatorship with restraint and without renouncing hope. The volume is the third of his poetic works, following Song of the Imprisoned Bird (1949, seized by the censorship) and Towards the Poem of Creation (1953), and precedes Mirror of the Invisible (1959). In 1957 José Terra left for France, where he would be a lecturer and professor of Portuguese at the Sorbonne, becoming a relevant figure in Lusophone studies in Paris. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate