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, João Artur da Silva 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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