António Maria Lisboa

António Maria Lisboa
Born	(1928-08-01)1 August 1928 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	11 November 1953(1953-11-11) (aged 25) Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Occupation	Poet
Known for	Surrealism

António Maria Lisboa (1 August 1928 – 11 November 1953) was a Portuguese surrealist poet.

Life

Antônio Maria Lisboa was born on 1 August 1928 in Lisbon. He studied at the Ensino Téchnico. He formed a small surrealist group in 1947 with Pedro Oom and Henrique Risques Pereira.^[1] Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos and Figueiredo Sobral were also members of this group.^[2] He became a lasting friend of Cesariny.^[1] The two poets wrote Afixação Proibida (Display Prohibited), an important manifesto of Portuguese surrealism which initiated the movement in Portugal.^[3] Lisboa and Cesariny became the two leading surrealist poets in Portugal.^[4]

Lisboa spent two months in Paris starting in March 1949. This is probably where he came in contact with Hinduism, Egyptology and occult subjects.^[1] Lisboa's work contains elements of the occult and esoteric.^[3] His work expressed loneliness and an obsession with death in gaunt, ironic and irreverent language.^[5] On his return to Lisbon he collaborated in the Surrealist Exhibition with poems and drawings with strange titles.^[1] Antônio Maria Lisboa contracted tuberculosis, which proved fatal.^[1] He died in Lisbon on 11 November 1953, aged 25.^[4]

Works

• Afixação Proibida (1949);
• Erro Próprio (1950);
• Ossóptico (1952);
• Isso Ontem Único (Lisbon, 1953);
• A Verticalidade e a Chave (Lisbon, 1956);
• Exercícios sobre o Sonho e a Vigília de Alfred Jarry seguido de O Senhor Cágado e o Menino (Lisbon, 1958);
• Uma Carta: Estrela da Ilha em Puros Ministros (Lisbon, 1958)
• Poesia de António Maria Lisboa (org. Mário Cesariny, Lisbon, 1962)

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