Ambiente.

BARBOSA, Jorge [Vera-Cruz].

Published by Praia, Minerva de Cabo Verde, 1941.

About this Item

8°, original printed wrappers (upper and lower edges frayed, spine defective at head and foot). Internally fine; overall in good to very good condition. Author's signed and dated six-line presentation inscription on recto of front free endleaf: "Ao Exmº Sr. Coman- // dante M.A. Ferrez // - Com os cumprimentos de // Jorge Barbosa // Stª Maria da // Ilha de Sal, 11/8/942." 48 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of Barbosa's second collection of verse; rare. A native of Cidade da Praia (1902-1971), Barbosa worked as a customs and municipal official in Cabo Verde while simultaneously pursuing a distinguished literary career. With his first poetry collection, Arquipélago (Praia, 1935), he introduced a new and distinctive Cabo Verdean poetry, no longer imitative of European forms. The following year, Barbosa joined with the writers Manuel and João Lopes, and Baltasar Lopes da Silva to found the pioneering Cabo Verdean literary journal Claridade: "It can truly be said that Cape Verdean literature is divided into two periods: before and after Claridade" (Moser & Ferreira). Barbosa's later verse collection, Caderno de um Ilhéu (Lisbon, 1956), was awarded the first Prémio de Poesia Camilo Pessanha by the Agência do Ultramar. *** Moser & Ferreira, Bibliografia das literaturas africanas de expressão portuguesa pp. 129-30 and 138-9; A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa (2nd edition, completely revised and expanded, 1993) 1783. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) 1131. See also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 124-6; Simone Caputo Gomes in Biblos, I, 542-4; and Elsa Rodrigues dos Santos, As máscaras poéticas de Jorge Barbosa e a mundividência Cabo-Verdiana (1989). NUC: CtY.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ambiente.
• Publisher: Praia, Minerva de Cabo Verde, 1941.
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)