num_pages: 44
description: Para Vasco (For Vasco) is the first in Heaventree's series of translations of Lusophone African poetry. Dedicated to Vasco Cabral, the late freedom fighter, politician and man of letters, this collection, presented in Portuguese and English, represents the first opportunity for the English-speaking world to read the poetry of Guinea-Bissau. Beginning with poems of the war for independence, and moving through the postcolonial period to highlight contemporary writers its diversity of styles and gradual unshackling of poetry from the imperatives of the anticolonial struggle make it a significant contribution to the growing canon of West African literatures.
language: Multiple languages
title: Para Vasco: poemas da Guiné-Bissau / For Vasco: poems from Guinea-Bissau
publisher: The Heaventree Press