Poems of Fernando Pessoa - Softcover

Pessoa, Fernando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872863425 ISBN 13: 9780872863422

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

"At last, at last, at last, Pessoa again! More Pessoa! One of the very great poets of the twentieth century, again and more! And one of the fascinating figures of all literature, with his manifold identities, his amazing audacities, his brilliance and his shyness. I think I have under control the reluctance I feel in having to share Pessoa with the public he should have had all along in America: until now, only the poets, so far as I can tell, have even heard of him, and delighted and exulted in him. He is, in some ways, the poet of modernism, the only one willing to fracture himself into the parcels of action, anguish, and nostalgia which are the grounds of our actual situation."—C. K. Williams

"Pessoa is one of the great originals (a fact rendered more striking by his writing as several distinct personalities) of the European poetry of the first part of this century, and has been one of the last poets of comparable stature, in the European languages, to become known in English. Edwin Honig's translations of Spanish and Portuguese poetry have been known to anyone who cares about either, since his work on Lorca in the forties, and his Selected Poems of Pessoa (1971) was a welcome step toward a long-awaited larger colection."—W. S. Merwin

"Fernando Pessoa is the least known of the masters of the twentieth-century poetry. From his heteronymic passion he produced, if that is the word, two of our greatest poets, Alberto Caeiro and Álvaro de Campos, and a third, Ricardo Reis, who isn't bad. Pessoa is the exemplary poet of the self as other, of the poem as testament to unreality, proclamation of nothingness, occasion for expectancy. In Edwin Honig's and Susan Brown's superb translations, Pessoa and his 'others' live with miraculous style and vitality."—Mark Strand

Fernando Pessoa is Portugal’s most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his “voices” is completely different in subject, temperament and style. This volume brings back into print the comprehensive collection of his work published by Ecco Press in 1986.

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Language Notes

Text: English
Original Language: Portugese

Review

At The Wheel Of The Chevrolet On The Road To Sintra
Cancioneiro: Audible
Cancioneiro: Autopsychography
Cancioneiro: Cat
Cancioneiro: I Sleep
Cancioneiro: I'm A Runaway
Cancioneiro: I'm
Cancioneiro: It's Raining
Cancioneiro: Lightly
Cancioneiro: Lightly, Listlessly
Cancioneiro: No
Cancioneiro: Some Mysterious
Cancioneiro: To Travel
Cancioneiro: Absurd Hour, Sels.
Cancioneiro: Advice
Cancioneiro: Analysis
Cancioneiro: Beyond God: 1. The Abyss
Cancioneiro: Beyond God: 2. It Passed
Cancioneiro: Beyond God: 3. The Voice Of God
Cancioneiro: Beyond God: 4. The Fall
Cancioneiro: Beyond God: 5. Bodiless Arm Brandishing A Sword
Cancioneiro: Christmas
Cancioneiro: Interval
Cancioneiro: Liberty
Cancioneiro: Loophole
Cancioneiro: Oblique Rain (excerpt)
Cancioneiro: Poem
Cancioneiro: Sickness
Cancioneiro: This
Cancioneiro: We Took The Town After A Heavy Bombing
He Came By, Wanting To Speak With Me On A Downtown Street
I Have A Terrible Cold
I'm Beginning To Know Myself. I Don't Exist
If You Want To Kill Yourself, How Come You Don't Want To Kill Yoursel
If, After I Die, They Want To Write My Biography
Introducing Alvaro De Campos
The Keeper Of Sheep: 1
The Keeper Of Sheep: 14
The Keeper Of Sheep: 15
The Keeper Of Sheep: 16
The Keeper Of Sheep: 2
The Keeper Of Sheep: 21
The Keeper Of Sheep: 27
The Keeper Of Sheep: 28
The Keeper Of Sheep: 30
The Keeper Of Sheep: 31
The Keeper Of Sheep: 35
The Keeper Of Sheep: 36
The Keeper Of Sheep: 43
The Keeper Of Sheep: 44
The Keeper Of Sheep: 46
The Keeper Of Sheep: 47
The Keeper Of Sheep: 48
The Keeper Of Sheep: 49
The Keeper Of Sheep: 6
The Keeper Of Sheep: 8
The Keeper Of Sheep: 9
Lisbon Revisited (1923)
Lisbon Revisited (1926)
Live, You Say, In The Present
Maritime Ode
Master, My Dear Master
Message: First Part: Coat Of Arms: 1. The Fields
Message: First Part: Coat Of Arms: 2. The Castles
Message: First Part: Coat Of Arms: 3. The Shields
Message: First Part: Coat Of Arms: 4. The Crown
Message: First Part: Coat Of Arms: 5. The Crest
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 1. The Prince
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 10. Portuguese Sea
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 11. The Last Ship
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 12. Prayer
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 2. Horizon
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 3. Pillar Standard
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 4. The Sea Monster
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 5. Epitaph Of Bartholomeu Dias
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 6. The Columbuses
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 7. West
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 8. Ferdinand Magellan
Message: Second Part: Portuguese Sea: 9. Ascension Of Vasco Da Gama
Message: Third Part: The Hidden One: 1. The Symbols
Message: Third Part: The Hidden One: 2. Prophecies
Message: Third Part: The Hidden One: 3. The Times
Note
Observations
Ode (an Excerpt)
Odes: 1
Odes: 10
Odes: 11
Odes: 12
Odes: 13
Odes: 14
Odes: 15
Odes: 16
Odes: 17
Odes: 2
Odes: 3
Odes: 4
Odes: 5
Odes: 6
Odes: 7
Odes: 8
Odes: 9
Opium Eater
Psyche-type (psychotype)
Salutation To Walt Whitman
The Sleep That Comes Over Me
The Snow Threw A Silent Towel Over Everything
The Startling Reality Of Things
Tobacco Shop
Written In A Book Abandoned On The Trip
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

This edition is the perfect vehicle in which to begin exploring him. -- The San Francisco Chronicle, Geoff Dyer

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0872863425
• ISBN 13: 9780872863422
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240