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Ant=nio Botto was one of Portugal's first openly gay writers, a poFte maudit whose unapologetic and candid verses about homosexual life and passion were both praised and reviled when they appeared in Portuguese in 1922 under the title Cant)es. Botto's poetic voiceuconfessional, personal, and intimateurevels and luxuriates in eroticism while expressing the ache of longing, silence, and suffering. Yet for all of his acclaim and notorietyuhe was both hailed as one of the great poets of his day and condemned for his frank depictions of maleumale desireuBotto and his work fell into oblivion after his death.
The Songs of Ant=nio Botto recovers this important, urgent voice in modern poetry by making availableufor the first time since its private publication in 1948uthe English language translation of Cant)es that Botto's friend and artistic collaborator, Fernando Pessoa, completed in 1933. Pessoa, Portugal's preeminent modernist literary figure, considered Botto the only Portuguese poet worthy of the label "aesthete" and, as a critic and publisher, championed his work. Featuring an introduction to Botto's work and Pessoa's previously unpublished foreword to the 1948 edition as well as a new translation of Botto's 1941 elegy to Pessoa, The Songs of Ant=nio Botto establishes Botto as a pioneering figure in modern gay literature and places him alongside C.P. Cavafy and Federico Garcia Lorca as one of the major poetic voices of the twentieth century.
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a poet, novelist, and literary critic who is widely considered one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century.
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Ant=nio Botto (1897-1959) was a Portuguese poet who wrote during the Modernist period in Portugal and published more than thirty volumes of poetry, short stories, and plays in his lifetime. He emigrated to Brazil in 1947, and died there in an accident.
