A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe - by Fernando Pessoa (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from "the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of" (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>)</b> <p/> <b>Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the magisterial biography <i>Pessoa</i></b> <p/><b>A Penguin Classic</b> <p/> Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three "heteronyms"―Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos―alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his most famous voices, this collection features Pessoa's major, best-known works and several stunning poems that have come to light only in this century, including his long, highly autobiographical swan song. Featuring a rich body of work that has never before been translated into English, this is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa's genius.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Pessoa was one of the great, twentieth-century poets, the equal of Yeats, Rilke, Valéry, Lorca, Pasternak, or Hart Crane. Here, at long last, is a copious selection, translated by the gifted poet and scholar Richard Zenith. It is cause for rejoicing." ―<b>John Ashbery</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Fernando Pessoa</b> (1888-1935) was born in Lisbon and brought up in Durban, South Africa. He returned to Lisbon in 1905. A prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, Pessoa published little in his lifetime and supported himself by working as a commercial translator. Although acknowledged as an intellectual and a poet, his literary genius went largely unrecognized until after his death. <p/><b>Richard Zenith</b> (editor, translator, introducer) lives in Lisbon, where he works as a freelance writer, translator, and critic. He is the author of the acclaimed biography <i>Pessoa.</i> His translations include Galician-Portuguese troubadour poetry; novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes; Pessoa's <i>The Book of Disquiet, </i>which won the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Prize for Portuguese Translation; <i>Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems</i>, which won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; and João Cabral de Melo Neto's <i>Education by Stone: Selected Poems</i>, which won the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. In 2012, Zenith was awarded Portugal's Pessoa Prize.
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