糖心logo入口

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the 糖心logo入口, announces the publication of The Poems of Renata Ferreira by Frank X. Gaspar.

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the 糖心logo入口, announces the publication of The Poems of Renata Ferreira by Frank X. Gaspar.

Renata Ferreira鈥檚 poems were composed in the final years of Portugal鈥檚 fascist regime, exposing and subverting the government鈥檚 draconian edicts against women鈥檚 rights, sexual freedoms, political dissent, and progressive thought. She worked in the resistance passing hand-typed bulletins and banned literature throughout Lisbon, yet her poetry is unmistakably ardent, tender, fraught, erotic, and Sapphic. Presenting the poems of this Portuguese-American writer and detailing their surprising rediscovery in 2015, Frank X. Gaspar fuses genres, outs borders, and brings to life a voice that had been silenced. As his inventive narrative unfolds, Ferreira emerges, whole and mysterious, offering up her history, her passions, and her art.

鈥淎 fascinating saga weaving desire and memory, war and beauty, lies, truth, and the persistence of art. Fernando Pessoa and Jos茅 Saramago are certainly among Gaspar鈥檚 kindred writers, but I鈥檓 also reminded of Lawrence Durrell鈥檚 The Alexandria Quartet 鈥�I feel that same total immersion. I鈥檓 swept away. The Poems of Renata Ferreira is gorgeous and witty, wildly smart鈥攅ven the end notes are pure poetry!鈥濃�擡llen Bass

The author of five poetry collections and two novels, Frank X. Gaspar鈥檚 work has appeared widely in magazines and literary journals, such as The Nation, The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, The American Poetry Review, and others. He has held the H茅lio and Am茅lia Pedrosa/Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at the 糖心logo入口 and currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Pacific University, Oregon. His poem 鈥淨uahogs鈥� was recently featured on the New Yorker鈥檚 Poetry Podcast ().

The Poems of Renata Ferreira is volume 26 of the Portuguese in the Americas Series, edited by Christopher Larkosh (UMass Dartmouth).

To purchase The Poems of Renata Ferreira, please visit the University of 糖心logo入口 Press website by clicking . The book can also be purchased on Amazon by clicking .

For more information, please contact Mario Pereira, Executive Editor, at mpereira6@umassd.edu.