Confronting the fact that Amado L. Caeiro’s poetry collection Baralha de sonhos comes framed by the interpretations provided through the accompanying texts authoredb by António Gil Hernández (legal name who fabricated Amado’s as his otherbproper name), this essay points towards the conditions of reading that such framing obliges to consider ab initio and which refer to the territories of intersection, hierarchy,
(inter) dependency, tension and conflict between the spheres of literature and politics in the Modern context sha-ped by the Nation-State
