Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person

by Erín Moure and Fernando Pessoa

Book Overview

A temporary move to Toronto in the winter of 2000, a twisted ankle, an empty house--all inspired Mour? as she read Alberto Caeiro and Fernando Pessoa's classic long poem O Guardador de Rebanhos. For fun, she started to translate, altering tones and vocabularies. From the Portuguese countryside and roaming sheep of 1914, a 21st century Toronto emerged, its neighborhoods still echoing the 1950s, their dips and hollows, hordes of wild cats, paved creeks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887846602
• ISBN13: 9780887846601
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"