{"product_id":"a-little-larger-than-the-entire-universe-selected-poems-9780143039556","title":"A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from \"the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003ci\u003ePessoa: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFernando Pessoa\u003c\/b\u003e (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Zenith\u003c\/b\u003e (editor, translator, introducer) lives in Lisbon, where he works as a freelance writer, translator, and critic. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003ePessoa: A Biography.\u003c\/i\u003e His translations include Galician-Portuguese troubadour poetry; novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes; Pessoa's \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Disquiet, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Prize for Portuguese Translation; \u003ci\u003eFernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; and João Cabral de Melo Neto's \u003ci\u003eEducation by Stone: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. In 2012, Zenith was awarded Portugal's Pessoa Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618630734098,"sku":"9780143039556","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ab5ff76-188c-4655-bb5f-27f5229f4f0c.jpg?v=1732539291","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-little-larger-than-the-entire-universe-selected-poems-9780143039556","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}