The President of the Regional Government of the Azores José Manuel Bolieiro joined UMass Dartmouth’s Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture officials on Monday to celebrate the creation of the Bellis Azorica book series featuring works by Azorean authors in translation.
By Millicent Borges Accardi
Raised in Los Banos, California, Portuguese-American writer Sam Pereira has published six books, most recently,
True North and Untrue You (Nine Mile 2020), a poetry collection which David St John (author of
The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems) states is “uniquely American. . . as if Lenny Bruce had written songs with Tom Waits.” Diniz Borges, director of the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute at California State University, Fresno adds that Pereira’s latest book “engages, surprises and liberates.”
Besides the six collections of poetry, Pereira’s work has also appeared in several anthologies of contemporary American poetry, among them: