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Poetry — Minimal Anthology

2020, Tinta-da-china

Title: Poetry — Minimal Anthology Original title: Poesia —Antologia Mínima Author: Fernando Pessoa Edited by: Jerónimo Pizarro Translated by: John Pedro Schwartz, with Robert N. Schwartz Series directed by: Jerónimo Pizarro Proofread by: Jordan B. Jones Layout: Tinta‑da‑china Cover design: Tinta-da-china (V. Tavares) First edition: February 2020 320 p. ISBN: 978‑989‑671‑538-0 This book is an invitation to “unlearn Pessoa,” to use an expression by the master Alberto Caeiro, and to read him as if we had just discovered him. Contrary to a recent tendency to locate the poet in a new setting—less literary and cultural, more urban and utilitarian—this Minimal Anthology proposes the discovery or rediscovery of Fernando Pessoa through some of the twentieth century’s most astonishing verses: from “Maritime Ode” to “Tobacco Shop,” moving through “Slanting Rain,” “The Monster,” “The Keeper of Flocks,” “Opiary,” “Autopsychography,” and many lesser-known poems, all of them revealing a genius that continues to elicit shock, delight, and admiration.