Fernando Pessoa: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback Condition:New happiness and belonging in our

happiness and belonging in our lives

alone at a crowded party

In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia

including Mount Royal Park

this is a cookbook to treasure

Fernando Pessoa: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback Condition:New happiness and belonging in ourThe writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for completeness. Dramatic, lyrical, Christian, pagan, old and modern, Pessoa's