Poemas a isto. Círculo de Poesia, 20.

Lisbon, Livraria Morais Editora, 1962.. FIRST and ONLY (?) EDITION. 4°, original printed wrappers with printed label tipped onto front wrapper. In very good condition. Author's signed and dated five-line presentation inscription near center of half-title: "Ao grande Poeta Murilo Mendes // com a muita admiração // e a muito grata estima // o Pedro Tamen // DEZ. 62". Some annotations [by Mendes?] in pencil. 49 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY (?) EDITION of the fourth book of poetry by this significant Portuguese poet, who has been awarded the Prémio da Crítica and the Grande Prémio Inapa de Poesia. He also has been influential as a translator, rendering into Portuguese the work of André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Georges Pérec, E. Jabès, Thomas à Kêmpis, Sade, Victor Segalen, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Fernando Savater, Camilo José Cela, Pedro Almodovar, Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Carlos Onetti, Mario Vargas Llosa, and others, for which he received the Grande Prémio de Tradução in 1990. Pedro [Mário Alles] Tamen (Lisbon, 1934-2021) has worked in publishing for various newspapers and reviews, most notably having served as director of Editora Morais (1958-1975), where he was responsible for the present collection, Círculo de Poesia, one of the most important series of books of poems ever published in Portugal. He also worked in public relations, and in the administration of the Gulbenkian Foundation (1975-2000). His own poems have been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Romanian, Chech, Slovak, Bulgarian and Lithuanian. Provenance: Murilo [Monteiro] Mendes (1901-1975), one of the great Brazilian poets of the twentieth century. His Tempo espanhol appeared in the collection Círculo de Poesia. See Murilo Marcondes de Moura in Biblos, III, 655-7; Gladstone Chaves de Melo in Jacinto do Prado Coelho, ed., Dicionário de literatura, II, 630-1.*** See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 468; Ana Teresa Diogo in Biblos, V, 269-73; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 303-5. Porbase locates two copies: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, citing another copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, same publisher, same collection, same collation, but giving the date of publication as 1963 Jisc locates two copies: Leeds University and Oxford University.