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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 869.141
EAN: 9780872863422
ISBN: 0872863425
Label: City Lights Publishers
Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Studio: City Lights Publishers
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anthology ed & tr Edwin Honig & Susan M. Brown
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This man is verbose and totally obsessed by his own emotional turmoil in everyday living.
It wouldn't be so bad except he really has little to say, and that he does in a completely
unremarkable way. Two thumbs down, ... unless you are a Cancer and share his condition.
Rating:  -
Fernando Pessoa is surely the most important 20th century Portuguese poet. The critic Harold Bloom considers Fernando Pessoa (along with Pablo Neruda) the "most representative" poet of the 20th century. This is a considerable feat if one considers other 20th century poets like: T.S. Eliot, Rilke, Valery, Yeats, Lorca etc.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez considers Neruda the "best poet of the 20th century, in any language." I highly admire Neruda, but Pessoa has done more for me, has influenced ... Read More
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It's telling of the miserable state and status of the Portuguese -- "a brilliance lacking luster" -- that only an enlightened few are privileged to know (posthumously) that Pessoa ranks among the greatest writers of recent centuries. (Yes.) Become one of the privileged few to enter Pessoa's universe, and make sure it's initially through the translations of Honig and Brown.
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Accessable modern poetry; depressing, surreal, with alot of sach-religious overtones.
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Do yourselves a favour and read the unforgettable poems of the century's least acknowledged, but greatest, poet.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 869.141
EAN: 9780872863422
ISBN: 0872863425
Label: City Lights Publishers
Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Studio: City Lights Publishers