News News: Publication of This Mellow World by Raymond Oliver

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces the publication of This Mellow World by Raymond Oliver.

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, announces the publication of This Mellow World by Raymond Oliver.

“This Mellow World is a cycle of twenty-three poems in which the individual texts make sense read separately from one another, but in which the entire body of poems is divided into three sections that tell the story of a protagonist on a quest to feel at home with his Portuguese ethnic identity and further explore that identity. Poetic insight and storytelling are so well integrated in this cycle that they appear seamless.”

—Francesco Cota Fagundes, Professor of Portuguese (emeritus), University of Massachusetts Amherst

Divided into three sections, This Mellow World tells the complex story of a protagonist on a quest to feel at home with his Portuguese ethnic identity. Engaging with the work of a range of Portuguese writers and poets, principally Eça de Queirós, this cycle of twenty-three poems excavates Raymond Oliver’s family history, moving from his grandparents’ journey from São Miguel to Boston in 1900 to his own return to the Azores in adulthood. The volume includes a preface from the poet.

RAYMOND OLIVER is emeritus professor of English at the University of California Berkeley. The recipient of a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, Oliver has published verse-translations, poems, and critical work. He is the author of three volumes of poetry, including Entries, Greeting the End of Time, and The Night When God Spoke French.

This Mellow World is volume 31 of the Portuguese in the Americas Series, edited by Francisco Cota Fagundes (UMass Amherst).

To purchase This Mellow World, please visit the University of Massachusetts Press website by clicking here.

For more information, please contact Mario Pereira, Executive Editor, at mpereira6@umassd.edu.