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Sixteen poems, many explicitly queer, with more poems added over time.
Fernando Pessoa's press released the second edition in 1922. It successful advertising launched the book into scandal.
Editions
- Lisboa : Olisipo (1922) second edition printed by Fernando Pessoa's press. Picture by Wikimedia.
- Guedas (1932) expanded edition. Increased to 205 pages.
- Lisboa: Livraria Bertrand (1941) Expanded and definitive as As Canções de António Botto.
- Privately Printed (1948) first English translation. Tr. by Fernando Pessoa.
- The Songs of António Botto (2010) Edited by Josiah Blackmore and translated by Fernando Pessoa. Adds Pessoa’s previously unpublished foreword to the 1948 edition and a new translation Botto’s 1941 elegy to Pessoa. ISBN 978-0816671014
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