‘Open Letter’: Unpublished of Herbert Helder published in March – Daily News – Lisbon

The Porto Editora announced on Friday the publication of unpublished notebooks collected in Poet, who died in March 2015. The title is own

“the Porto Editora will release a book of unpublished poems by Herbert Helder, collected from his notebooks, which already included the title, open Letter “, reads in a statement on Friday. The book is published in March, when a year passes on the poet’s death at age 84.

“This is not the critical issue that the unpublished work of Herbert Helder deserve and that will certainly be published in the future now that your estate is being fully digitized, “he said the same source, adding that” it is a choice made by the widow of the poet, which allows a first approach to the rich ‘workshop’ from which Herbert was building its ‘continuous poem.’ “

the Porto Editora also said it reached an agreement with the Chinese Ink publisher, to publish all the work of Herbert Helder in Brazil.

Herbert Helder died on March 23 last year at his home in Cascais, is remembered by the literary and political circles as the “word wizard,” poet “volcanic” that sent the silence, but whose work leaves marks in Portuguese literature.

Discreet, averse to more mundane side of literary life, surviving for more than fifty works, especially poetry, the fall in the space of the greatest poets of the Portuguese language.

Author who “fled the banality,” Herbert Helder was a “word wizard” that “took magic in everything it touched,” he said on the day of his death the professor Arnaldo Saraiva Literature. An innovative poet who created “a new language, which is truly magical and magnificent,” added the journalist José Carlos Vasconcelos.

Born in Madeira in 1930, Herbert Helder lived mostly on the continent, from adolescence had various crafts – labor, war reporter, editor, packer, librarian – but the writing was the most constant, since published the first book, Love visiting in 1958.

the critic Pedro Mexia identifies him a word of ownership without mistrust, irony or cynicism and considers it for that verbal force, the greatest poet of the second half of the twentieth century, such as Fernando Pessoa it was in the beginning of the century.

Herbert Helder gave the last interview in 1968, refused the Pessoa Prize in 2014 and edited the book the death without master . Lefties Poems a posthumous edition of May 2015, gathered the last poems written by Herbert.

It was a “master” to other writers such as the poet Nuno Judice admitted in day of death of Herbert Helder a “very different poet, as volcanic” that showed “all that is magical and inexplicable poetry,” said in turn, the professor of Universdade Nova de Lisboa, Fernando Pinto do Amaral.