The poeta José Luiz Tavares published deleted Paradise by thunder (2003), Wild matter world (2004), Lisbon blues (2008) and, now, the oldest city name (2009).
It is probably more unusual poet discovered in African literature of English after the independence of the countries. Caustic, irreverent, combining the classical sources and extensive knowledge of universal poetry corner of the homeland, a language both ancient and modern, has a powerful voice and high-sounding, full of creativity out of the ordinary, which surprised by the eloquence and irony, as a deep anger came in the form of a sonnet, tamed, happy, and, paradoxically, spitting fire and melancholy.
So what might seem like a poetic exacerbated egolátrica, drinking in the guts of the feelings (inadequacy to society, insulation, insurrection individual statement narcissistic pleasure free to hit all kinds of catharsis and atonement), appears in all the strength of a process of metamorphosis of epic history on the nation and the ethical effort to deconstruct the mental suffering, "fighting babugem / am angry verse poet." But an "angry back" tamed the sonnet, in which the applicant of the rapture blue romantic in the sense of freedom and the demand for wilderness, is associated with a vigilant awareness of the "shine the reflection is just literature." The blue winged down from heaven, which expressed the "horror of normalcy," and that the alchemical quest of "dark matter" made up to face, not the "smiling metaphors," but the "Gunpowder / many fears, unarmed with a "heart dissonant," the poet devotes the "stubborn weight of roots."
Pires Laranjeira - Professor of African Literatures and Cultures and researcher at the Center for Portuguese Literature at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Coimbra.
