Books
POEMS OF FERNANDO PESSOA; Translated and edited by Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown; (City Lights Books: 246 pp., $15.95) : FERNANDO PESSOA & CO.: The Selected Poetry of Fernando Pessoa; Translated and edited by Richard Zenith; (Grove Press: 290 pp., $25) : THE BOOK OF DISQUIET; By Fernando Pessoa; Translated by Alfred Mac Adam; (Exact Change: 352 pp., $15.95)
Jan. 10, 1999
THE SELECTED PROSE OF FERNANDO PESSOA, Edited and translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith, Grove Press: 342 pp., $24
Sept. 30, 2001
Fernando Pessoa was the great Portuguese poet of modernism.
June 20, 1991
They spoke to me of people, and of humanity. But I’ve never seen people, or humanity.
Aug. 16, 1998
Archives
The clouds are dark But toward the south A scrap of sky Is sadly blue.
March 5, 2000
To be great, be whole; exclude Nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you. Be whole in everything.
Sky, the blueness of quiet light.
Travel & Experiences
No one, in the vast and virgin jungle Of this unreckoned world, ever sees The God he knows.
They say I lie or feign In all I write. Not true. It’s simply that I feel Via the imagination.
I sleep. If I dream, I do not know on waking What it was I dreamt. I sleep.
May 4, 2003