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of Poetry and Aesthetic at Universidade of

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, where he also directs the '' Moenia'' magazine. With

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'' (1990), which includes '' Poemas de amor sen morte'' 'Poems of Love Without Death''; 1979 '' Tigres de ternura'' 'Tender Tigers'', 1981 '' Historia da lúa'' 'Moon Story'', 1984 '' A boca violeta'' 'Violet Mouth'', 1987and ''

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'' 'The Struggle Continues'', 2004 and '' Ámote vermella'' 'I Love You Red'', 2009 and the nomadic poems, which to date include ''

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'' 'To an Unknown Woman'', 1997 '' Viaxes a ti'' 'Trips to You'', 2006and ''

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and numerous books and editions on the narrator Ánxel Fole and the poet

, along with other Galician ( Castelao, Dieste,

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, '' Galician Review'', 3–4, 1999–2000, 105–132; in ''Entre duas augas'', by Kathleen N. March,

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, 1991, 144–149,

Poetry

*''Poemas de amor sen morte'' (1979) *''Tigres de ternura'' (1981), ''Tender Tigers'' (2012) *''Cinepoemas'' (1983) *''Historia da lúa'' (1984) *''A boca violeta'' (1987) *''Lugo blues'' (1987) *''Vulva'' (1990) *''Cebra'' (1991) *''A muller núa'' (1992) *''Extrema Europa'' (1996) *''A unha muller descoñecida'' (1997) *''Rastros de vida e poesía'' (2000) *''Moito máis que mil anos'' (2000) *''A vida. Gravados sobre corpo'' (2002) *''A loita continúa'' (2004) *''Viaxes a ti'' (2004), ''Voyages à toi'' (2008) *''Ámote vermella'' (2009) *''Unha tempada no paraíso'' (2010), ''Uma temporada no paraíso'' (2019) *''Amores e clamores (Poesía reunida)'' (2011) *''Terra extrema de radiación amorosa'' (2011) *''O cuarto bretón / La pièce bretonne'' (2014) *''Revolución rosaliana en Nova York / Rosalía's Revolution in New York'' (2014) *''Icebergs (Micropoemas reunidos)'' (2015) *''Ansia das alas / L'ansia di avere le ali'' (2015) *''Amores sen morte / Deathless Loves'' (2015) *''A cabeleira (Poema en 35 idiomas)'' (2015) *''A cabeleira (Poema en 60 idiomas)'' (2016) *''Os amores profundos / Les amours profonds (''2016'')'' *''Anarquista o nada (Poemas de la memoria libertaria)'' (2016) *''A cabeleira multilingüe (Poema en 65 idiomas)'' (2017) *''Pai meu (Amén, camarada) (Poema en 8 idiomas)'' (2017), 11 (2019), 16 (2020) *''Limiares sen límites / Πύλες απειράριθμες'' (2017) *''A muller sinfonía (Cancioneiro vital)'' 2018) *''Corpoética (catálogo de exposición)'' 2018) *''Diálogos imposibles / Dialogues impossibles'' (2018) *''Criptografías'' (2018) *''Máis alá do bosque / Dincolo de pădure'' (2018) *''Beleza ou barbarie / Bellesa o barbàrie'' (2019) *''A viaxe vermella (María Casares) (Poema en 11 idiomas)'' (2021) *''ADN do infinito'' (2021), ''DNA do infinito'' (2024) *''Nova York, Novos Poemas / New York, New Poems'' (2022) *''A cabeleira (Poema en 70 idiomas) (2023)

Prose

*''Meta-relatos'' (1988) *''A muller loba'' (1993) *''Belas e bestas'' (2002) *''O muiñeiro misterioso'' (2005) *''A bela mestra'' (2005) *''Os paraísos eróticos'' (2010) *''Contos e descontos (Narrativa completa)'' (2011)

Essay

*''A Galicia misteriosa de Ánxel Fole'' (1981) *''

Antonio Machado Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation ...

e Galicia'' (1989) *''Poesía galega'' (1989) *''Arte literaria'' (1991) *''

'' (1992) *''Comentarios de textos contemporáneos'' (1992) *''Comentarios de textos populares e de masas'' (1994) *''A literatura galega durante a guerra civil'' (1994) *''Material Valente'' (1994) *''Acometida atlántica. Por un comparatismo integral'' (1996) *'' Ánxel Fole. Vida e obra'' (1997) *''O mundo lucense de Ánxel Fole'' (1997) *'' Ánxel Fole. Unha fotobiografía'' (1997) *''Guía de investigación literaria'' (1998) *''

dende o labirinto galego'' (2008) *''Valente: el fulgor y las tinieblas'' (2008) *''Meus amores celtas'' (2010) *''Valente vital (Galicia, Madrid, Oxford)'' (2012) *''

y todo (Escepticismo y otros laberintos)'' (2013, 2023) *''Valente vital (Ginebra, Saboya, París)'' (2014) *''Valente vital (Magreb, Israel, Almería)'' (2017) *''Valente infinito (Libertad creativa y conexiones interculturales)'' (2018) *''Valente epistolar (Correspondencia de José Ángel Valente con sus amistades)'' (2022) *''Santiago Marcos, poeta topo contra el fascismo'' (2023) *''Poetas concatenados: Cavafis, Cernuda, Valente y Gamoneda'' (2024)

Edition and Introduction

*''Contos de lobos'', by Ánxel Fole (1985, 1989) *''Cántigas de alén'', by

(1987, 1989, 1996) *''Con pólvora e magnolias'', by

Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín (Ourense, 7 August 1938) is a Galician writer and poet and is widely considered the highest representative of contemporary Galician literature. A doctor in philology, he studied philosophy at the University of Santia ...

(1989) *''Os eidos'', by

Uxío Novoneyra Eugenio Novo Neira, known as Uxío Novoneyra ( Parada de Moreda, Courel, 19 January 1930 – Santiago de Compostela, 30 October 1999), was a Galician poet, journalist and writer of children's literature from Galicia, Spain. He was born in ...

(1990) *''Guerra literaria'', by Rafael Dieste (1991) *''Verbas de chumbo'', by Castelao (1992) *''Poesía perdida'', by

Ricardo Carballo Calero Ricardo Carballo Calero ( Ferrol, 1910 – Santiago de Compostela, 1990), self-styled as Ricardo Carvalho Calero from 1981 onward, was a Spanish philologist, academic and writer. He was the first Professor of Galician Language and Literature at ...

(1993) *''Obras reunidas'', by Ángel Johán (1993) *''Cartafolio galego'', by Ánxel Fole (1996) *''Obra galega completa'', by Ánxel Fole (1997) *''A lenda do Grande Inquisidor'', by

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(1998) *''Cuaderno de versiones'', by

(2001) *''Cima del canto'', by

(2002) *''Obra literaria completa'', by Ánxel Fole (2003) *''Obras completas II. Ensayos'', by

(2002) *''Ensayos sobre

'', de

Juan Goytisolo Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet ...

(2009) *''Musgo / Moss'', de Emily Dickinson, with translation to Galician (2015)

External links

Unión libre. Cadernos de vida e culturasAsociación para a Dignificación das Vítimas do FascismoCátedra José Ángel Valente de Poesía e EstéticaBiblioteca Virtual Galega
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