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A valuable, accessible little collection of varied pieces from His Supreme Quirkiness, Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa published little in his lifetime but amassed a great pile of writings which have only recently been published in various forms. (more...)
A special and rather beautiful book, the studied tribute of many artists and writers to the unusual genius of Fernando Pessoa, based around a diverse selection of his work. Several biographical and literary essays are also included, (more...)
Fernando Pessoa is the extreme example of what may be the essentially modern kind of poet: the objective introvert. None has more consistently tried to find his poems impersonal. He accepted the dividedness of a human self so completely that he did something unique: wrote poetry under four names - his own and three 'heteronyms'. Not pseudonyms: they are imagery poets with real poems in them. Fernando Pessoa was four poets in one: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Alvaro dos Campos and himself; each strongly distinct from the others.