The poetry of Fernando Ferreira de Loanda – a dialogue with Portuguese poetry

Abstract

Fernando Ferreira de Loanda was born in São Paulo [of Luanda], Angola, in 1924, and died in Rio de Janeiro, in 2002. His name is linked to the generation of 45 and has been mentioned by scholars, mainly, for the work he carried out as the head of the magazine Orfeu and for editing the volumes Panorama da poesia brasileira (1951), Antologia da nova poesia brasileira (1965) e Antologia da moderna poesia brasileira (1967), but Loanda was the author of at least four books of poetry: Equinócio (1953), Do amor and do mar (1964), Kuala Lumpur (1991) and Signo da serpente (2000). He sought to establish dialogues with other Portuguese and Spanish-speaking poets. We intend to bring information that arouse studies on dialogues that he had with poets from Angola and Spanish-speaking America and exemplify the dialogue with Portuguese poetry, from the analysis of the poem “Ode para Bartolomeu Dias”.