With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith\"s new complete translation of The Book of Disquiet has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time as one of the greatest but also strangest modernist texts....

\"But no, she\"s abstract, is a bird Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered Because the song\"s what makes her sing.\" Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal\"s greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tireless search for meaning....

The poetry of ?the greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of ? ( Los Angeles Times ) Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under ?heteronyms??fully fleshed alter egos with startlingly different styles and points of view....