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The Red Skirt
The Australian literary magazine Southpaw, in its inaugural issue, has published paulo da costa’s story set in Angola and entitled The Red Skirt. The story is part of a recently finished manuscript of fiction entitled The Green and Purple Skin of the World.
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ser português – novo CD de poemas em língua portuguesa
Disponível nas diversas lojas virtuais da www.amazon.com por todo o mundo, incluindo em Espanha, Inglaterra e EUA, o novo CD de poesia do paulo da costa pode ser descarregado nas suas lojas de música mp3. O cibernauta tem a opção de compra do CD por faixa ou no seu todo.
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ser português – poema
O poema longo, ser português, acabou de ser publicado pelos cadernos de estudos de literatura Gávea-Brown da Universidade de Brown nos Estados Unidos. Gavea-Brown – A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American Letters and Studies 2010-2011 Gavea-Brown Publications was founded in 1980 under the auspices of the Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University, its purpose being to make Portuguese literature and culture better known in the English-speaking world. With such a broad as well as ambitious objective, its plan was to publish titles in such rather diverse areas as translations of Portuguese literature, works relating to Portuguese Studies, and original creative works, in English or in Portuguese, which in some…
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The Democratisation of Poetry
Bob Holman (USA) became a poet in the third grade when his teacher said, “That’s a very good poem, Robert. Where did you copy it from?” He has published five books, most recently The Collect Call of the Wild and a poetry CD, In With the Out Crowd. He has also helped to put poetry on TV, producing The United States of Poetry for PBS and appearing on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged. Currently, he teaches a course at Bard College, “Exploding Text: Poetry in Performance.” Holman works to change traditional definitions of poetry and to broaden its audience through work that has been noted for its raw power and irreverent…
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a foot in two worlds
a foot in two worlds on south terraced slopes vineyards rose in awnings of foliage feet lifted me up ten-foot ladders through green nearer the divine fingers easily pinched the dangling blue thirsty skin touched every soft fruit of the earth but not tin or plastic heels digging into grapes it was love stomping through the eve in granite vats tannin tingling skin before bed before blowing out the candle the blood of christ on my lips then hers ©1998paulodacosta
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The Red Skirt by paulo da costa read aloud by Carole Giangrande
Welcome to WORDS TO GO Podcast #40! Curl up close to your computer/MP3 player, and listen up as Carole intros an outstanding new talent, Paulo da Costa from Portugal via the west coast of Canada. And if there’s still a chill in the air where you are, his story set in the heat of Angola will warm you up with its rich language and powerful characters. Carole dedicates this podcast to an old literary friend and gentleman of the writer’s world, a wonderful agent and mentor who’s left us. Listen. Welcome to WORDS TO GO Podcast #40! Curl up close to your computer/MP3 player, and listen up as Carole intros…
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The Soul and It’s Worms
* A leaf follows my footsteps rasping its skin against cobblestone bleeds with every turn to be near ©1998 paulodacosta
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Palms
Tomás leaned against the muddy wall of the trench furiously whittling a knotted tree branch. He paused, controlled his impatience, not wishing to carve the wrong groove. The knuckles of his hand were white, his fingers numb from the relentless work, the iced air. He unwrapped his frozen fingers from the wood and warmed his hands under his armpits before firing random shots into the night. He waited for the enemy sentinel to dutifully respond. The shots echoed over the hill. Tomás sighed. One more hour of silence would now settle over the trenches. Tomás sealed a rolled cigarette with his tongue and lit the smoke under his coat. As…
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As Borboletas de Prudêncio Casmurro
Prudêncio Casmurro não era um homem qualquer. Enterrou os pais, sete mulheres e o último de vinte e dois filhos, revelando sempre pouca ânsia em partir deste mundo. Testemunhou carros de bois a serem substituídos por tractores e tractores a serem substituídos por ceifeiras monstras. Do quarto, espreitava sobre o muro do quintal. Espreitava o mundo que rodopiava cada vez mais loucamente, o mundo que brilhava e rangia os dentes mais ferozmente, a imensa cintilação dificultando-lhe a diferenciação entre a noite e o dia. Com teimosia de burro prosseguia com a sua vida. Era como se fossem ventos passageiros a bater-lhe à janela e aos quais ele fechava as cortinas…
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Eugénio de Andrade – Between Brutality and Tenderness
paulo da costa interviews Eugénio de Andrade Eugénio de Andrade is the most loved of the living Portuguese poets and the best known outside his country. He is thin, slightly hunched by the weight of nearly eight decades of life and there is a visible frailty in the way he walks. His hair is pure white. Of himself he has said he is a mixture of brutality and tenderness. In 1994 the city of Porto offered him a house with a view to the sea and the small colourful fishing boats rocking by the shore. The house was designed having in mind that a poet was going to inhabit it.…
