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]

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