March between Meridians
Livros de Ontem

March between Meridians

Livros de Ontem is pleased to present you the new book by Luísa Fresta, winner book of the Women's Prize "A Bouquet of Roses for You" organized by MAAN.

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Livros de Ontem is pleased to present you the new book by Luísa Fresta, winner book of the Women's Prize "A Bouquet of Roses for You" organized by MAAN.

March between Meridians is a hybrid between visual arts, implicitly, and poetry. It is a synthetic book consisting of three branches which I have called notebooks and which were born in different ways at different times. The first notebook (POST CARD) was written looking at photographs by Paula Sant'Ana, Luso-Angolan artist and teacher; the result was a set of sonnets with my interpretation of the images, translated into ideas that quickly lined up in small armies of words. It was a fluid, pleasurable, and spontaneous exercise; (this technique, with some variants, had already been used in Contexturas, a book of short stories based on paintings by Armanda Alves). Book II (VERSES CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HISTORY OF [EN] CANTAR) contains mostly free verses, centered on the themes of Christmas, rebirth and exclusion; I tried to select texts with this common base, poems that had a level language and a shared concept. The third notebook (WORDS PAINTED ON THE SCREEN), like the first, results from the observation of canvases, in this case Ysabelle Roby-Pétrel, a French plastic artist; abstract art gives us a greater margin to digress and that is what I did, focusing on color and texture. March between Meridians is thus a work that marks my gender commitment to all the Women of the world and their / our various struggles ("March" of the calendar, it is rain or spring and it also brings a symbolism that we all embrace). "Among meridians" because poetry can also be this way: a mutant, mutant and traveling language, which knows no boundaries, pregnant here with Angolanity, in small subliminal notes.

About the author

Luísa Fresta, Portuguese and Angolan, lived most of her youth in Angola, a country with which she maintains family and cultural ties; has been living in Portugal since 1993. He published in 2012/13 a series of chronicles on the 70s and 80s of life in Luanda, through the Jornal Cultura - Jornal Angolano de Artes e Letras, with which he regularly collaborated until 2015 and published also in various online magazines ( the Mozambican Literates and the Brazilian Samizdat and Subversa). He writes regularly since 2013 on the portal O Gazzeta, coordinated by Germano Xavier and since 2014 publishes prose and poetry in the portal Entrementes - Digital Magazine of Culture. Since 2016 he has also written in the digital newspaper Artes & Contextos. About cinema (mainly Lusophone and Francophone African) maintains episodic participations through opinion articles on the Africiné film critic's website, BUALA portal Awotele magazine, and maintained, until 2015, two columns in the magazine METROPOLIS entitled: The 7th art in Africa and Lusophony films. In 2016 he was a member of the jury of the pre-selection committee of the pan-African representation of the Festival l'Arbre d'Or (documentary films - Gorée / Senegal).
Awards and main anthologies: 1998- Portugal: contest of short short stories "Expo 98 palabras" (text Crime, published along with about another 100); 2013- Brazil: 2nd place in the 9th online contest - II Licinho Campos Prize for Poetry of Love (poem Sonnet of Love in Women); 2nd Prize in the 1st International Literature Contest of Alacib, (in the chronic category, with other Championships); 2014- Brazil: the poem Perhaps was considered one of the best 50 presented to the contest and included in a collection published by the Academia Jacarehyense de Letras, promoter of the 8th International Festival of Sonetos; 2015- Brazil: chronicle Luanda, alias "São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda" included in a collection edited by the House of the Brazilian Poet of Praia Grande-SP; 2016- Portugal: joined, along with seven other authors, a supportive anthology dedicated to the subject of mental health, entitled "Mens Sana" (with the tale The paper of Aurélie), edited by Books of Yesterday; 2018- Brazil: 1st prize of international chronicle in the 2nd Literary Varal of the City Hall of Divinópolis with the text I want the big pot; 2019- Angola: participated in an anthology in homage to the poet João Tala titled "Nós e a Poesia" edited by Handyman Editions.

 

AUTHOR'S WORKS: 49 Steps / Between the Limits and the Infinity (poetry), Chiado Editora, 2014 Contexturas (short stories, based on paintings by Armanda Alves, co-author), Books of Yesterday, 2017 March between meridians (poetry, 1st prize "A Bouquet of Roses for You"), MAAN, 2018

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  • LUÍSA FRESTA

    Estamos no bom caminho!

    Com a vossa ajuda , «MARÇO entre meridianos» está agora muito mais perto de chegar às vossas casas e conhecer os leitores de Portugal.
    Sou grata pelo caminho que temos percorrido juntos e espero que o livro esteja à altura das vossas expectativas.

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  • LUÍSA FRESTA

    OBRIGADA!

    Agradeço publicamente a quem tem vindo a apoiar esta campanha tão generosamente e sem reservas. A poesia deve ser acarinhada por quem a lê e valoriza.
    A campanha de «MARÇO entre meridianos» segue o seu curso gradualmente e com firmeza; é uma honra prosseguir uma tão grande aventura ao vosso lado, com o apoio da editora Livros de Ontem.
    Um abraço,
    Luísa

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