Fernando Pessoa & Co.

Selected Poems

Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith, Richard Zenith

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Year: 2007
• ISBN:
  9780802198518
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Poesie

The first comprehensive English translation of poetry from the renowned Portuguese author of The Book of Disquiet: "An arresting... body of work" ( Newsday ). Born in 1888, Fernando Pessoa is widxely considered Portugal's greatest modern poet and author. With an introduction that illuminates the life and work of this elusive literary giant, Fernando Pessoa & Co. is the most comprehensive and elegantly translated edition of Pessoa's poetry available in English. Pessoa was as much a creator of personas as he was of poetry, prose, and criticism. He wrote under what he referred to as "heteronyms, " numerous alter egos with fully fleshed identities and writing styles, who supported and criticized each other's work in the margins of his drafts and in the literary journals of the time. Ranging widely over the possibilities of language, Pessoa's poetry echoes symbolist verse, Portuguese folk song, and futurist manifesto. From spare minimalism to a revolutionary exuberance that recalls Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Pessoa's oeuvre was radically new and anticipated contemporary literature to an unnerving degree. Fernando Pessoa & Co. is "a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century" ( Booklist ).

Table of contents

• FERNANDO PESSOA & CO.
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT
• CONTENTS
• ABOUT THIS NEW AND EXPANDED EDITION
• PHOTO
• INTRODUCTION: THE DRAMA AND DREAM OF FERNANDO PESSOA
• RICARDO REIS
• ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS
• MANUSCRIPT
• NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION AND THE POEMS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• BACK COVER