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A Reader’s Response to Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey
Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey: A Reader’s Response By Emanuel Melo I overheard a conversation between a father, his wife and daughter while at lunch at Le Petit Château in Quebec City the other day. “What are you planning to do this afternoon?” he asked. “We’re going to the Museum of Civilization.” “Great. That’ll give me time to watch the game and then we’ll meet up after.” I could say that I found it shocking that someone would take the time to come all the way to Quebec City to stay cooped up in a hotel room to watch a game while ignoring the charm of the city, but…
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DiVersos nº23 – «Poesia e Natureza» com paulo da costa, Reiner Kunze e Ricardo Lima
DiVersos nº23 – Destaque para o novo Dossier «Poesia e Natureza» com paulo da costa, Reiner Kunze e Ricardo Lima Caso ainda não conheça a revista de poesia DiVersos aproveite esta oportunidade para a se encantar com este projecto que vai comemorar este ano o seu vigésimo aniversário de publicação e tradução. Um feito notável de compromisso e longevidade pela mão do sempre afável José Carlos Marques e da sua equipa. SUMÁRIO DIVERSOS – POESIA E TRADUÇÃO 23 Uma inovação na estrutura da DiVersos, a «etiqueta» POESIA E NATUREZA. Neste número, os poemas de paulo da costa, Reiner Kunze e Ricardo Lima surgem com a etiqueta «Poesia e Natureza». Tal…
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Poetic & Lyrical – impressions by Irene Marques
Irene Marques on Beyond Bullfights & Ice Hockey (essays) Paulo da Costa has a poetic and lyrical voice that is beautiful. It is an appeasing murmur conducive to meditation putting into question the acceptance of the mundane or the fashions of the moment which are often guided by economic pressures that erase us all under a blanket of sameness. It is a voice that wants the power of the word to remain pure so that it can reach us at a deep level and have an impact that goes well beyond the facades of easy, cheap rhetoric. It is a writing that asks you to slow down, to pause, in order…
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Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora – Anthology
Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada: An Anthology Editors Luis Gonçalves and Carlo Matos, Preface by George Monteiro This anthology brings together fiction, poetry, recipes, and memoirs by some of the best Portuguese-Canadian and Portuguese-American writers to narrate the Portuguese Diasporic experience in North America. These works focus on lived experiences, shared spaces and the ethnic identity through which this distinctive culture is lived in the United States of America and Canada, both of which have long been home to significant and vibrant Portuguese communities that arrived roughly in the same waves of migration. In this book, you will find a range of texts…
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New short-story in Stand Magazine
STAND magazine is a quarterly print magazine for men who give a damn about being better men, better husbands, better fathers, better partners, better brothers, better friends, better sons, better neighbors, better citizens. STAND magazine, issue two, highlights several individuals and companies attempting to do just that, including Christian Birky, the founder of Detroit-based fashion label Lazlo, and William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle. The issue includes a short story by paulo da costa. Swedish writer Ulf Peter Hallberg remembers his father and we then look at the very serious issue of human trafficking with photojournalist Tim Matsui. Writer Steve Almond tells us why he turned against football…
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New poem in Contemporary Verse 2
Contemporary Verse 2 volume 38.3 “The Open Issue” marks the beginning of CV2‘s fifth decade and features the winners of the Young Buck Poetry Prize and 2-Day Poem Contest. The issue includes new poetry from Sarah Klassen, John Wall Barger, Linda Frank, paulo da costa and Ted Landrum as well as several book reviews. New poems by: Kayla Krut Stephen Matthew Brown Jesse Matas Penn Kemp Kelly Stewart John Wall Barger Paula Jane Remlinger Wanda Campbell Glen Sorestad Sarah Klassen paulo da costa Ted Landrum Shauntay Grant Patricia Young Linda Fran Ruth Daniell Michelle Brown Rebecca Salazar Carter Vance Claire Kelly Steven Slowka Leslie Casey Michael Fraser Medrie Purdham Cana…
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Interview in Portuguese-American Review
original interview in Portuguese-American Review Portuguese-American Review – Congratulations on publishing “Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey: Essays on Language, Identity and Writing Culture”. What is this book’s genre or category? paulo da costa – The book can be seen as a creative non-fiction collection of texts that stretches its traditional essay-like boundaries past the more journalistic or academic essay by its irreverence, humour and often its embrace of a poetic tone to deliver thought through the vein of beauty. I hope it will be seen as a garden of beautiful words with philosophical substance. A poet at heart can never abstain from wrapping his thoughts in beauty. An edible…
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Obligatory reading for the North American Luso Diaspora – impressions by Diniz Borges
Diniz Borges on Beyond Bullfights & Ice Hockey (essays) Just began to read this new book of essays by paulo da costa. The first essay is amazing. Paulo is a great writer. The title of the book is great. Indeed, beyond some of these stereotypical cliches that we slap in the Portuguese experience in North-America. Paulo writes from a Portuguese-Canadian experience, not very different from ours here in the US. I will continue reading this great book of essays and it will be, I’m sure, one of future articles for the Portuguese language press in the US and in the Azores. Congrats to Boavista Press for the publication. Acabo de…
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New book: Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey
Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey Essays on Identity, Language and Writing Culture A book of twelve essays, musings, thoughts, inner conversations, arguments and rambles written over the course of two decades. For those who believe the book is obsolete and has been overtaken by other cultural platforms and technologies in our increasingly fast-moving times, I remind myself that the book is a marker of sanity for the human spirit. It will always be a measure of how far we humans have fallen off our cultural and spiritual balance. The book is an intimate match to the rhythm of our consciousness, our state of being present in the world, our hunger…
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New Fiction in Prairie Fire Magazine
paulo da costa’s fiction in Prairie Fire‘s spring 2015 issue! The Spring 2015 Volume 36, No.1 issue features fiction by Catherine Brunet, paulo da costa, Alex Leslie and Leanne Lieberman; poetry by Byrna Barclay, Matthew Gwathmey, Bill Howell, Sally Ito, Andrew Kozma, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Douglas Burnet Smith, Stephanie Warner and Daryl Whetter; and non-fiction by Souvankham Thammavongsa. Table of Contents Alex Leslie The Sandwich Artist Laurie D. Graham Two Poems Stephanie Warner Domesticity Leanne Lieberman Mr. Donuts Byrna Barclay Two Poems Armand Garnet Ruffo The Artist and His Four Wives, 1975 Paulo Da Costa A Catalogue of Devotions Matthew Gwathmey from Appalachian Ecologues Catherine Brunet Aramis in Leningrad Douglas…
