Poetry
A luta é a minha primavera
Not translated into English
Vasco Cabral · 1981
Synopsis
The author's first collection, gathering twenty-three years of poems written between 1951 and 1974. At first turned towards universal themes, the texts focus from the sixties onwards on the reality of Guinea. They move from the oppressed to the struggle, from misery to hope, from love to peace and to the child, and denounce colonialism, slavery and repression.
Context
The collection appeared at Oeiras, in Portugal, from África Editora, in the series Cântico geral, in 1981. Its poems belong to the generation that made poetry a weapon of the struggle for independence, and Manuel Ferreira included some in his anthology of fifty African poets. The Latin Union later published a trilingual version, in Portuguese, French and Romanian.
Who it is for
Poems of struggle in Portuguese; a trilingual edition with French exists, but it is rare.
Prizes and reception
Its author is regarded as the Bissau-Guinean poet who tackled the widest range of themes.
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