Canções
1921
António Botto
Lisboa: Imprensa Libanio da Silva
Portuguese
Poetry
95pp
Gay Men
Summary
Sixteen poems, many explicitly queer, with more poems added over time.
More Info
Fernando Pessoa's press released the second edition in 1922. It successful advertising launched the book into scandal.
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Editions
Lisboa : Olisipo (1922) second edition printed by Fernando Pessoa's press. Picture by Wikimedia.
Guedas (1932) expanded edition. Increased to 205 pages.
Lisboa: Livraria Bertrand (1941) Expanded and definitive as As Canções de António Botto. Seen on Abebooks by CIMELIO BOOKS.
Privately Printed (1948) first English translation. Tr. by Fernando Pessoa.
The Songs of António Botto (2010) Edited by Josiah Blackmore and translated by Fernando Pessoa. Adds Pessoa’s previously unpublished foreword to the 1948 edition and a new translation Botto’s 1941 elegy to Pessoa. ISBN 978-0816671014