Pedro Mexia was born in Lisbon in 1972.
He graduated in Law at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and attended the Master in Literature and American Culture at Universidade de Lisboa. He writes book reviews for the newspaper Diário de Notícias, the magazine LER.
I bought the ‘Ballad of the Sad Café' from her,
after having almost passed as a book
thief, touching books without looking
at them, while I circled from all
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Lisbon is not Alexandria but then
Alexandria is only a metropolis
heightened and exalted in verse, its geometry,
its incisions of small despair.
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In the improvised church hall,
disordered rows of chairs announced
a film on ‘the life of Christ'.
We were children, on holiday
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En route, Hartford stiffens
and at the same time becomes lighter.
Fall ceases to be the fall.
The cockerels don't sing
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This poem begins by comparing you
to the constellations,
with their magical names
and precise drawings,
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