{"product_id":"patria","title":"Pátria","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow do you speak to a country you love when its glory gives way to shame?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Pátria, Guerra Junqueiro turns Portugal's national humiliation into a long dramatic poem of anger, grief and hope. Behind it stands the British Ultimatum of 1890: Britain demands Portugal's withdrawal from African lands it hopes to unite. Remembered glory makes that wound deeper, and the poem asks readers to face the pain of national decline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJunqueiro speaks as a fierce republican, turning his verse against kings, courtiers and the old habits of a tired nation. His anger is not indifference. He addresses Portugal with the harsh love one might show a sick relative. Scorn and affection pull against each other, while hope refuses to let the country's humiliation become its final word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA nation's open wound\u003c\/strong\u003e – Encounter the anger and grief that turn a political humiliation into poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGlory against decline\u003c\/strong\u003e – Feel how the memory of national greatness makes present shame harder to bear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRulers under fire\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Junqueiro's fierce republican attack on kings, courtiers and a nation's worn habits.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLove without comfort\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a poet whose attachment to Portugal gives his harshest criticism its force.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHope beneath the scorn\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover the stubborn hope that holds its place beside the poem's anger.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers drawn to political poetry, Portuguese history, a poet's rage, or the difficult ways a nation speaks about its own decline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and meet Junqueiro's Portugal in its anger, grief and stubborn hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534569537884,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/02144_en_ebook-front_c22.jpg?v=1792174902","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/products\/patria","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}