The Songs of António Botto

by António Botto

António Botto was one of Portugal's first openly gay writers, a poète 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 Canções . Botto's poetic voice-confessional, personal, and intimate-revels and luxuriates in eroticism while expressing the ache of longing, silence, and suffering. Yet for all of his acclaim and notoriety-he was both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081667101X
• ISBN13: 9780816671014
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.9"