By Antonio Botto
Ant?nio Botto was once certainly one of Portugal's first overtly homosexual writers, a po?te maudit whose unapologetic and candid verses approximately gay existence and fervour have been either praised and reviled after they seemed in Portuguese in 1922 below the identify Can??es. Botto's poetic voice-confessional, own, and intimate-revels and luxuriates in eroticism whereas expressing the pain of longing, silence, and pain. but for all of his acclaim and notoriety-he used to be either hailed as one of many nice poets of his day and condemned for his frank depictions of male-male desire-Botto and his paintings fell into oblivion after his loss of life. The Songs of Ant?nio Botto recovers this significant, pressing voice in glossy poetry through making available-for the 1st time given that its deepest ebook in 1948-the English-language translation of Can??es that Botto's good friend and inventive collaborator, Fernando Pessoa, accomplished in 1933. Pessoa, Portugal's preeminent modernist literary determine, thought of Botto the one Portuguese poet valuable of the label "aesthete" and, as a critic and writer, championed his paintings. that includes an creation to Botto's paintings and Pessoa's formerly unpublished foreword to the 1948 version in addition to a brand new translation of Botto's 1941 elegy to Pessoa, The Songs of Ant?nio Botto establishes Botto as a pioneering determine in sleek homosexual literature and locations him along C. P. Cavafy and Federico Garc?a Lorca as one of many significant poetic voices of the 20th century.
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14 ] 3 The moon Was wandering in the sky With the stars that round her loom. In candelabra Of bronze Candles were burning In the stillness of my room. On the floor, crumpled in flood, The velvets seemed Waves of wine and waves of blood. He looked at me and he dreamed: And I Just smoked in silence and watched How the white and naked moon Passed through the skies which it matched. He came to me, and he sought Wildly, hungrily and thirstily [ 15 ] My mouth, which he kissed and drained— My mouth which is like a flower— And from kissing back refrained.
What a grand life! To have wine for my own lover And death for my constant mate! [ 19 ] 5 Listen, my angel: What if I should kiss your skin, What if I should kiss your mouth Which is all honey within? , The flesh of the rankest sinner Is like the flesh of the saint. Mildly, softly, in a posture Which was mysteriously feigned, He gave me his golden body Which my feverish kisses drained. In the windowpane the rain Tinkled lightly, tinkled slow . . He clasped me and closed his eyes, The better to see me there; And I died, I slowly died, Like a vague scent in the air .
To such persons the beauty of Greek art will ever seem wanting, because its supreme beauty is rather male than female. W I N C K E L M A N N This page intentionally left blank I Boy This page intentionally left blank 1 No, let us kiss, only kiss In this evening’s agony. Keep For some better moment Your manly body so brown. My desire has now no flame, And living too much too near you Has changed me, I am another . . The mist of the night comes down. I can now hardly distinguish The dark blondness of your hair, Oh, how beautiful you are!