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Today the
postman brought
me a conniption
fit. Called that be-
cause it makes you
angry when you put
the jacket on & it's
too tight across
the shoulders.

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Today the
postman brought
me the shot
heard round the
world. I was a-
sleep at the time,
& missed it.

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Afagando a Face de Lorca. Uma Antologia
Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho

Selecção e tradução de Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho

Prefácio de Manuel Portela

Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho antologia 22 poetas contemporâneos (da Ucrânia à China). É um exercício que nos dá a ver em português as diferentes vozes dos poetas antologiados mas igualmente a própria voz do poeta-tradutor: Craveiro de Carvalho tem-se dedicado nos últimos anos, a par da sua produção poética, a oferecer-nos versões de grande parte dos poetas agora reunidos sob o título Afagando a Face de Lorca (paráfrase de um verso do neozelandês Mark Young).

Manuel Portela, no seu poema-prefácio: «(…) uma tradução / é uma escrita em segundo / grau. é preciso tomar / nas mãos o peso do texto / na fonte, sentir nos ouvidos / e na boca a sua delicada / superfície verbal, reconhecer-lhe / o tom – irónico, melancólico, / sarcástico, indignado, resignado, / inquieto, feliz. é preciso ainda, / nessa transferência, tocar-lhe / a textura assimétrica de arestas / angulosas, ressonâncias / evocativas, cadências / paratácticas, imagens / dolorosas, elipses / ambíguas, frases / quebradas. é preciso vê-las / deambular, atrair-se e / repelir-se, constelar-se e / cristalizar-se. é preciso / afagar as formas, coá-las / no filtro das línguas (…).»

Os poetas antologiados: Adam Zagajewski (1945, Lviv, Ucrânia), Amalia Bautista (1962, Madrid, Espanha), Aram Saroyan (1943, Nova Iorque, EUA), Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (1947, Lahore, Paquistão), Billy Collins (1941, Nova Iorque, EUA), Charles Simic (1938, Belgrado, Jugoslávia), David Lehman (1948, Nova Iorque, EUA), Eunice de Souza (1940, Pune, Índia. Faleceu em 2017), Howie Good (1951, Nova Iorque, EUA), J. R. Solonche (1946, Nova Iorque, EUA), Jane Hirshfield (1953, Nova Iorque. EUA), Jennifer Clement (1960, Greenwich, Connecticut, EUA), José Luis García Martín (1950, Aldeanueva del Camino, Cáceres, Espanha), Luis Alberto de Cuenca (1950, Madrid, Espanha), Mark Young (1941, Hokitika, Nova Zelândia), Michael Dylan Welch (1962, Watford, Inglaterra), Nathalie Handal (1969, Haiti), Neil Curry (1937, Newcastle on Tyne, Inglaterra), Owen Bullock (1967, Cornualha, Inglaterra), Pat Boran (1963, Portlaoise, Irlanda), Roger Wolfe (1962, Westerham, Kent, Inglaterra), Steve Klepetar (1949, Xangai, China).

Poemas originais (em inglês e castelhano) e em português.

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