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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... Read Full Overview

"One of the great originals of modern European poetry and Portugal's premier modernist."--Washington Post

"Pessoa has had many English-language interpreters but none better than Richard Zenith."--New York Review of Books

Fernando Pessoa--a... Read Full Overview

The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae... Read Full Overview

Fernando Pessoa, the great Portuguese poet and prose writer, has become an icon not only in his native Portugal -- where his likeness once adorned a monetary note -- but also in France, where he is revered in much the same way that Whitman is here. Never before has such a comprehensive... Read Full Overview

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was one of the major poets of the 20th century, one of the major names in Portuguese writing, and one of the most enigmatic figures in world literature of any period. In his introduction to this dual-language Selected Poems, first published in 2004,... Read Full Overview

Fernando Pessoa, the great Portuguese poet and prose writer, has become an icon not only in his native Portugal -- where his likeness once adorned a monetary note -- but also in France, where he is revered in much the same way that Whitman is here. Never before has such a comprehensive... Read Full Overview

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was one of the major poets of the 20th century, one of the major names in Portuguese writing, and one of the most enigmatic figures in world literature of any period. In his introduction to this dual-language Selected Poems, first published in 2004,... Read Full Overview