Carlos Alberto Portugal Correia de Lacerda (September 20, 1928 – August 27, 2007) was a Portuguese poet and BBC Radio Presenter.
He taught European and Comparative literature at the Universities of Austin, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts from where he retired in 1996 as a Professor Emeritus of Poetics.
He was one of the founders of the poetry magazine Távola Redonda, along with Ruy Cinatti, António Manuel Couto Viana and David Mourão-Ferreira.
[2] He is described as having a language with few adjectives but rich in imagery, revealing a mysterious world hidden in the ordinariness of things.
[3] His body was found by the English art critic John McEwen, with whom he had a lunch planned.