{"product_id":"the-songs-of-ant-nio-ant-nio-botto-9780816671014","title":"The Songs of Antio Botto","description":"Ant nio Botto was one of Portugal's first openly gay writers, a \u003ci\u003epo te maudit\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCan  es\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 hailed as one of the great poets of his day and condemned for his frank depictions of male-male desire-Botto and his work fell into oblivion after his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Songs of Ant nio Botto\u003c\/i\u003e recovers this important, urgent voice in modern poetry by making available-for the first time since its private publication in 1948-the English-language translation of \u003ci\u003eCan  es\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Featuring an introduction to Botto's work and Pessoa's previously unpublished foreword to the 1948 edition as well as a new translation of Botto's 1941 elegy to Pessoa, \u003ci\u003eThe Songs of Ant nio Botto\u003c\/i\u003e establishes Botto as a pioneering figure in modern gay literature and places him alongside C. P. Cavafy and Federico Garc a Lorca as one of the major poetic voices of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antio Botto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081667101X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816671014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011","brand":"Antio Botto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986728452351,"sku":"9780816671014","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50a575ab-ffba-4fe8-8e4e-6a0ef21edcd4.jpg?v=1683284864","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-songs-of-ant-nio-ant-nio-botto-9780816671014","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}