António Maria Lisboa

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]

• 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)