The Poetry of Frederico Barbosa

Frederico Barbosa

     Frederico Tavares Bastos Barbosa was born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, on February 20, 1961 and moved with his family to São Paulo, where he currently lives, when he was six. He lived for some time in the United States, in New Haven, Connecticut, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Austin, Texas.
    Barbosa began undergraduate studies in Physics and Greek at the University of São Paulo, where he majored in Portuguese Language and Brazilian and Portuguese Literature. Frederico never completed his master's program in Brazilian Literature.
    A literary critic at the Jornal da Tarde and Folha de S. Paulo for some years, he currently directs one of the most important cultural centers in Brazil, the Casa das Rosas - Espaço Haroldo de Campos de Poesia e Literatura.
    His poems have been published in various journals in Brazil. His first book, Rarefato (Editora Iluminuras, 1990), was chosen by the newspapers O Estado de São Paulo and O Estado de Minas (Belo Horizonte) as one of the best books published in the country that year. His second book, Nada Feito Nada (Editora Perspectiva,1993), was published by the prestigious Coleção Signos, edited by Haroldo de Campos, and was awarded the most important literary prize in the country, the Jabuti Prize. Recently, his poems have been translated and published in anthologies in several countries, as the United States, Australia, Mexico, Spain and Colombia.
    In 2000, Frederico Barbosa published Cinco Séculos de Poesia - Anthology of Classic Brazilian Poetry, (Landy Editora) and CONTRACORRENTE - poems, (Iluminuras)
    In 2001 Frederico Barbosa published an annotaded edition of the episodes Inês de Castro and O Velho do Restelo, from The Lusíadas, by Luís de Camões (Landy Editora) and released his fourth book of poetry, Louco no Oco sem Beiras - Anatomia da Depressão, by Ateliê Editorial.
    In 2002 Frederico Barbosa published, with Claudio Daniel, an anthology of contemporary brazilian poetry, Na Virada do Século - Poesia de Invenção no Brasil (Landy Editora) and released his fifth book of poetry, Cantar de amor entre os escombros, also by Landy. For this publishing house, he created and edits the Alguidar Colection.
   In 2004 he published A Consciência do Zero (Lamparina) and won his second Jabuti Prize with Brasibraseiro.

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Watch a video from Coco Chanel featuring the poem Day Dream, by Frederico Barbosa:
(The use of this poem was not authorized by the author)

(...) Sonhos aprisionados / nessa torre / ilha / correm soltos / mar de marfim / por dentro.

Dedicar cada dia / entre tantos / inúteis momentos / a refinar / cada gesto palavra cor / ou sentimento.

Nadar no vazio alheio / movidos / por nosso sonho / claro e tácito / acordar comovido / da mente em movimento. / Nesse castelo, nossa praia / essa coragem nossa / sua presença acende. / Um mundo raro / um sonho em claro / doce recheio / sem resposta.

Sonhamos / vida (...)

Interviews with Frederico Barbosa

To Luiz Alberto Machado - Guia de Poesia

To Ana Elisa Ribeiro - Estante de Livros

To Ana Carolina Abiahy - Jornal O Norte

To Carol Almeida - Jornal do Commercio

To Reynaldo Damazio - Weblivros

To Rodrigo de Souza Leão - Caox

To Souza Leão - Balacobaco (about Cantar de Amor entre os Escombros)

To Sebastião Edson Macedo - Guia de Poesia

To R. de Souza Leão - Balacobaco (with Claudio Daniel)

To Rodrigo Petronio - Trópico (with Claudio Daniel)

Contracorrente

Poems

Press Release

Introduction - Frederico Barbosa

Text from the back cover - Antonio Candido

Preface - Antonio Risério

Arnaldo Antunes (Revista Veja)

About the book (estadão.com.br)

Review by Emílio Fraia

Review by Manoel Ricardo de Lima

Review by Viviana Bosi (Folha de S.Paulo)

Review by Linaldo Guedes (A União - PB)

Review by Amador Ribeiro Neto (A União - Part 1)

Review by Amador Ribeiro Neto (A União - Part 2)

Review by Amador Ribeiro Neto (A União - Part 3)

Review by Sebastião Uchoa Leite (Revista Cult - january 2001)

Review by Carolina Leão (Diário de Pernambuco)

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Rarefato
The whole book

Poems in English

Poems in Spanish

Nada Feito Nada

Ocasionais

Sem Nem

A Língua desse Povo:
Achados

Certa Biblioteca Pessoal

Repertório

LOUCO NO OCO SEM BEIRAS
Anatomia da Depressão

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Cinco Séculos de Poesia Anthology of the brazilian classic poetry With the most important poems by 21 brazilian poets until the beginning of the 20th century: José de Anchieta, Gregório de Matos, Botelho de Oliveira, Cláudio Manuel da Costa, Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, Alvarenga Peixoto, Basílio da Gama, Gonçalves Dias, Álvares de Azevedo, Casimiro de Abreu, Junqueira Freire, Fagundes Varela, Sousândrade, Castro Alves, Alberto de Oliveira, Raimundo Correia, Olavo Bilac, Cruz e Sousa, Alphonsus de Guimaraens, Pedro Kilkerry e Augusto dos Anjos

Review of the book (O Estado de S.Paulo)


Vocação do Recife New poem

About FB's poetry

Fotogramas de 2001,UMA ODISSÉIA NO ESPAÇO de Stanley Kubrick

Essays by FB

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