The Sea Within

Out there in the Atlantic between Europe and America, in the midst of often rough seas, the nine islands of the Azores rise above the surface, constantly transformed by overactive volcanoes and shaken by earthquakes. As John Updike observed, the islands of the archipelago resemble “Great green ships themselves,” as “they ride at anchor forever; beneath the tide.” In The Sea Within, George Monteiro and Onésimo T. Almeida bring together a diverse collection of poems that showcase the ocean’s central presence in Azorean life and culture.

GEORGE MONTEIRO (1932–2019) was professor emeritus of English and Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University. He was the author of Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature and Minotaur, Parrot, and the SS Man: Essays on Jorge de Sena.

ONÉSIMO T. ALMEIDA is professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University.