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Lisbon, Editorial Caminho, 1990.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. Author's signed and dated presentation inscription on half title: "a Mania Judite // e ao Urbano Tavares Rodrigues // com a mais viva admiração // e um abraço muito amigo de // António Ramos Rosa // Natal 1990". 62 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this book of poems. António Ramos Rosa (Faro, 1924-Lisbon, 2013), received the Prémio Fernando Pessoa in 1988, Prémio P.E.N. Clube Português de Poesia (1981, 2006), Prémio Jacinto do Prado Coelho (1987), Grande Prémio de Poesia APE/CTT (1989, 2005), Grande Prémio Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (2005), Prémio de Poesia Luís Miguel Nava (2005), and the Medalha de Mérito Cultural (2006), among other honors and distinctions. Provenance: Maria Judite de Carvalho [Tavares Rodrigues (Lisbon, 1921-Lisbon, 1998)], journalist, Prize-winning essayist and author of short fiction, met Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in 1944. They married in 1949. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 106-7; Paula Morão in Biblos, I, 1020-2; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 124-7Urbano Tavares Rodrigues (Lisbon, 1923-Lisbon 2013) grew up in Moura, in the Alentejo, in a family of large landowners, and eventually became a militant communist. He was a widely acclaimed and prolific author of fiction, researcher, essayist, literary critic, professor Catedrático jubilado at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, and recipient of many literary prizes. His earliest works were greatly influenced by existentialism, in particular following the literary model of Albert Camus. Simultaneously they display a certain Portuguese turn-of-the-century decadence, particularly influenced by Fialho de Almeida (especially obsessive evocations of the Alentejo), António Patrício and Manuel Teixeira Gomes, all of whom were discussed by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in critical essays and later in his doctoral thesis. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 422-3; Cristina Robalo Cordeiro in Biblos, IV, 909-13; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 296-8; Jacinto Prado Coelho, ed., Dicionário de literatura (4th ed.), I, 203; II, 509; III, 954; Actualização, pp. 681-2.*** See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 423-4; Cristina Almeida Ribeiro in Biblos, IV, 995-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 367-72.