Literary Café to read and hear the poetry of Jorge de Sena

The Literary Café Cycle takes you to the "The piano in Senas' poetry", at Municipal theatre Campo Alegre, on 8 December at 6.30 pm.

António Durães recites some of the poems from the book "Arte de Música" by Jorge de Sena. The musical pieces that inspired such poems will be evoked during this coffee-social gathering, namely Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Satie and Debussy, interpreted by Sofia Lourenço on the piano.

Jorge de Sena was a poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and a university professor. Jorge de Sena received his degree in civil engineering from the University of Porto, and has published his first poems at age 18.

His liberal yet strongly independent convictions regarding Portuguese politics during the Salazar dictatorship led to his exile in Brazil in 1959, and subsequently, after the military coup in Brazil in 1964, to the United States, in 1965, where he was a University Professor.

Despite his will to return to Portugal, following the Portuguese Coup d'état, on 25 April 1974, which ended Salazar's Dictatorship, no Portuguese University offered the Portuguese writer a teaching position.

His interests were wide-ranging, including literature, intellectual history, and politics. He died in Santa Barbara, California in 1978. His remains were moved to the Cemitério dos Prazeres in Lisbon on 11 September 2009.