From Portuguese Heritage Publications of California

Expanded English-Portuguese bilingual edition

 

MY CALIFORNIAN FRIENDS: POETRY

by Vasco Pereira da Costa

Translated by Katharine F. Baker and Diniz Borges

 

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Vasco Pereira da Costa Guest speaker

XVIII Colóquio da Lusofonia 18th Colloquium on the Portuguese Language

Ourense, Galicia SPAIN

Friday-Sunday, October 5-7, 2012

Associação Internacional dos Colóquios da Lusofonia & Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa

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Read commentary by translators Katharine F. Baker and Diniz Borges:

Women of Azorean descent in Vasco Pereira da Costa’s My Californian Friends: Poetry

Katharine Baker, speaker 5th International Colloquium: The Voice and Choice of Portuguese Women in the Diaspora in France and Elsewhere

V Colóquio Internacional: A vez e a voz da Mulher Portuguesa em França e Outros Lugares V Colloque International: Les femmes portugaises dans la diaspora en France et dans le monde

Université Paris Ouest / Nanterre La Défense Paris, FRANCE 11-13 May 2011

 

 

University of Saint Joseph [Macau] awards doctorate honoris causa to poet and writer Vasco Pereira da Costa

 

20 April 2011: The University of Saint Joseph conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa to Vasco Pereira da Costa, a distinguished man of letters and culture from the Azores and Portugal... Besides My Californian Friends, his literary output includes three books of short stories, five books of poetry, a novel and a memoir. His short stories won the Miguel Torga and Aquilino Ribeiro literary prizes. [Read entire article]

 

 

Portuguese Heritage Publications presented Vasco Pereira da Costa's My Californian Friends and The Portuguese Presence in California by Dr. Eduardo Mayone Dias (translated by Katharine Baker, Dr. Bobby Chamberlain and Diniz Borges) in late September 2009 in communities throughout California. A reception followed each presentation. See photos of all four events!

 

BOOK CONTENTS (* including poems not published in the earlier Portuguese edition)

Read an excerpt from each translated poem:

In Gustine, at the Feast of Our Lady of Miracles of Serreta

Matateu

In the Lung Wah restaurant with Manuel Homem

My cousin Manuel

* The man from Pico whom I ran into in Gilroy

The fisherman of San Diego

A bourbon with Tony Goulart

Abel Alves

Diniz, the Portuguese Teacher

Steven Borges in the Portuguese Band

Hélio Beirão

Sonnet to Onésimo (with an asterisk)

A question for Álamo Oliveira

Conversing with João de Melo

Rose was Rosa’s name

Queen Nancy

Artesia’s patron

* Salute to John Steinbeck

* Be sure

* The gods of Yosemite

Native ode

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Em Gustin, na Festa da Senhora dos Milagres da Serreta

Matateu

No restaurante Lung Wah, com Manuel Homem

Meu primo Manuel

O homem do Pico, que encontrei em Gilroy *

O pescador de San Diego

Um bourbon com Tony Goulart

Abel Alves

Dinis, the Portuguese Teacher

Steven Borges na Filarmónica Portuguesa

Hélio Beirão

Soneto com asterisco para o Onésimo

Uma pergunta a Álamo Oliveira

À conversa com João de Melo

Rose era o nome de Rosa

Queen Nancy

A padroeira de Artesia

Saudação a John Steinbeck *

Be sure *

Os deuses de Yosemite *

Ode nativa

 

"The penitent and jubilant labor of the worlds. Identity like the natural reserve of nobility. Doubts and uncertainties derived from possessing foreign roots. The constant reformulation of cultural matrices. The revelation of feelings. Apprehension from wandering senses. Solitary inquiry into the condition of the emigrant. The celebration of Friendship. A poetry of brotherly dedication – inventive, rigorous, subtle and refined."

 

– Vasco Pereira da Costa

 

My Californian Friends: Poetry, by Vasco Pereira da Costa

Colecção Décima Ilha (Tenth Island Collection)

Portuguese Heritage Publications of California

P.O. Box 32517, San Jose, California 95152

ISBN 978-0-9789994-7-6 / Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009925325

 

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