Mediterranean - Paperback

by João Luis Barreto Guimarães (Author), Calvin Olsen (Translator)

Excerpted from the award statement by

ANTÓNIO RAMOS ROSA NATIONAL POETRY AWARD júri minute

(José Tolentino Mendonça, Nuno Júdice, Adriana Freire Nogueira)

City of Faro, July, 26. 2017:

"For its thematic coherence, linked to the theme of the voyage, for the originality of a universe that is not limited to description, Mediterranean captures, in each poem, the essential details in which European history and culture are projected. This is a book where the South appears represented in all that the Mediterranean means in our culture. Greco-Latin antiquity is transported to the present, crossed with the Judeo-Christian matrix. Mediterranean is a book that presents us with a poetry that reflects our cultural roots as living elements of our daily lives.This is a remarkable book by João Luís Barreto Guimarães, celebrating the encounter of his poetics with this world of memories, correspondences and voices."