António José Forte - Só Me Calarei Para Te Amar Mais

Bringing together the letters written between 1959 and 1967 by the poet to Amélia Bento, his first wife, Só me calarei para te amar mais unveils the “secret face of the man” who was António José Forte.

In the summer of 1959, in the heat of the city of Porto, a sparkling encounter would shape the story of “two souls amazed and wounded by the spectacle of the world's misery”: from the burning passion of two separated lovers to the setbacks of a life together that comes up against the wall of everyday life. These letters and promises, written at the Café Royal, in the Aljube prison, in the day-to-day life of itinerant libraries and in cosmopolitan Paris, trace the pair's journey over almost a decade, revealing between the lines the genesis and inspiration behind some of António José Forte's poems.