by José Saramago · PORTO EDITORA · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720046857
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«Os Poemas Possíveis» is José Saramago's poetry collection, published by Porto Editora in paperback (184 pages, in European Portuguese).
José Saramago's first poetry collection, originally published in 1966, when censorship spied on writers. The verses defend freedom, fraternity and struggle from a restrained language that moves in a labyrinthine interior. The author's convictions already emerge in poems such as «Criação».
This 2014 edition, published by Porto Editora, corresponds to the ninth edition of the collection; the work originally appeared in 1966.
For poetry readers and for those who want to discover José Saramago's lyrical side before his novels.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
