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João Luís Barreto Guimarães
was born in Porto, Portugal
(June, 3rd, 1967) where he graduated in Medicine. He is a Poet
(as well as a Breast Reconstructive Surgeon). As a writer, he is the author
of 9 poetry books since 1989, collected twice, including his first 7 books
in “Poesia Reunida” (“Collected Poetry”, Quetzal, Lisbon, 2011) and
the subsequent “Você Está Aqui” (“You Are Here”, Quetzal, Lisbon,
2013) and “Mediterrâneo” (“Mediterranean”, Quetzal, Lisbon, 2016). He
is also a translator, a chronicler and a bloguer, mainly for his blog
“Poesia & Lda” (“Ilimited Poetry”).
His “Collected Poetry” was reviewed by The Times
Literary Supplement: «João
Luís Barreto Guimarães is a playful
poet. This doesn’t mean he’s unserious, but that he takes poetic form
seriously as a game poets play in exploring experience. (…) His questioning
temperament, his light but disciplined style, along with his steady focus on
the quotidian, serve him well in conveying the love and grief at the heart
of his life.»
Landeg White
Steven Fowler, in
3:AM Magazine,
wrote: “With a precision and focus that seems
to mirror the requirements of his profession, a surgeon, the poetry of
João Luís
Barreto Guimarães is representative of the
finest work in contemporary Portuguese letters. Concise, eloquent and
immediate, his work is concerned with phenomenological clarity and an
engagement with a language of presence, of excavated intimation, and a
wholly personal reality that hinges on a fundamental act of communication
with the impersonal. For over two decades he has been a leading light in a
poetry tradition often underappreciated outside of its borders, but from
which giants of modern poetry like Fernando Pessoa and João Miguel Fernandes
Jorge have emerged.”
His work is published in Anthologies in Portugal,
Brasil, Germany, Italy, México and Croacia, as well as in literary magazines
in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Macedonia, Brasil and
the United States.
In English:
-His poem “Anonymous Death” was published in Poetry
London, Summer 2015: Issue 81;
-“Christmas Tangerines” and “The Same Rain Again” were
published on World Literature Today, 20 July 2016;
-“Everything’s rooftop”, “The cat wants no movement” and
“The churches of Europe” were published on Anima, Summer 2016: Issue
3;
-“The Cat Wants No Movement” was accepted for publication
on The Columbia Review;
-“Statues Missing Chunks” was accepted for publication on The London
Magazine;
- "The Efficacy of Light"
and "Confession of Hippocrates of Kós" were accepted for publication on
Tupelo Quarterly.
http://www.poemsfromtheportuguese.org
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