Luís Quintais poetry somewhat evades the more or less predictable trends of the most recent Portuguese poetry; in its most figurative aspect it owes something to Seamus Heaney and, in its opaqueness, to Wallace Stevens. It is a poetry that codifies language processes and insights in a reflective manner, in an open code, rather than documenting them. This cryptographic trait of his poetry is, precisely, the root of poetry itself, wishfully disfigured, impressed, condensed.
Daniel Jonas
Luis Quintais was born in Angola. He is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Coimbra, where he lives.
Poetry books since 2000: Verso Antigo (2001), Angst (2003), Duelo (2004), Riscava a Palavra Dor No Quadro Negro (2010), Poesia Revisitada 1995-2010 (2011), Depois da Música (2013), O Vidro (2014), Arrancar penas a um canto de cisne (2015), A Noite Imóvel (2017), Deus é um lugar ameaçado (2018), Agon (2018), Via Negativa (em colaboração com Susana Paiva) (2020), Regressarás à leveza do ver: uma viagem no Japão (2020), Ângulo Morto (2021), Uma breve luz, uma incisão: adágios, vestígios, fragmentos (2021).
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