{"product_id":"a-little-larger-than-the-entire-universe-isbn-9780143039556","title":"A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe","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)―now thoroughly revised and updated\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting 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.“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.” ―\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300386820325,"sku":"NP9780143039556","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143039556.jpg?v=1767720608","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-little-larger-than-the-entire-universe-isbn-9780143039556","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}