Camilo Pessanha: Selected Poetry

24 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Camilo Pessanha's life and work, from Symbolism to early Modernism. 

Reading and discussion of "Images that flicker across the retinas", "Who soiled these linens, who left them stained and torn", "Madrigal" and "Ice Sonnet", with guest lecturer and translator Jeffrey Childs.

Intertextual relationship with Charles Baudelaire's "Correspondences" (from The Flowers of Evil) and John Ashbery's "As You Came From The Holy Land" (from Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror).

Main topics: fleetingness and fluidity; decadence and the end of an era; the passive observer; the senses as a source of knowledge (above rationality).