Occupation Poet, writer Role Poet Nationality Portuguese | Period 1958–2015 Children Daniel Oliveira Name Herberto Helder | |
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Herberto Helder de Oliveira (November 23, 1930 – March 23, 2015) was a Portuguese poet. He was born in Funchal, Madeira.
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- Minha cabe a estremece herberto h lder rodrigo le o
- Reler herberto h lder
- Biography
- Works
- Poetry
- Fiction
- References
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Biography
Herberto Helder was born in the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira. In 1946 he traveled to Lisbon to complete his secondary studies and subsequently in 1948 moved to Coimbra to study Law at university. In 1949 he had changed to the Humanities University to study Romance Philology but dropped out after three years without completing the course. After returning to Lisbon he took up several temporary jobs, and got in contact with a circle of artists and writers such as Mário Cesariny, Luiz Pacheco, João Vieira and Hélder Macedo. This group revolved around Surrealism which would inform his early writings. In 1958 his first book, O Amor em Visita was published. In the following years he traveled and lived in France, Holland and Belgium taking menial jobs to survive.
Works
Herberto Helder's poetry and fiction is very visual, and has connections with Surrealism, still his style is difficult to define; he was a practitioner of experimental poetry and some call him an orphic or visionary poet (that somehow reminds Ezra Pound).
Considered one of the most important contemporary Portuguese poets his poetry is not yet enough studied by academics due to the obscurity of his personality itself (he refused to take literary prizes or have media exposure) and the complexity of his paradoxal work that has a strange enchantment.
Poetry
Fiction
