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“Fernando Pessoa in many ways was a writer of not so much his own time, but even more of a future time.” Translator and scholar Richard Zenith speaks about the life and work of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa collected in his new book, Pessoa: A Biography (Liveright, 2021), in this conversation with poet, editor, and translator Patricio Ferrari for Powell’s Books.
Tags: Poetry | Translation | Richard Zenith | Pessoa: A Biography | Liveright | 2021 | Fernando Pessoa | Patricio Ferrari | Powell's Books -
In this World Poetry Salon series event presented by Limelight Poetry and the New York Public Library, Victoria Chang reads a selection of poems from her books, including Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), with musical accompaniment by yuniya edi kwon, and discusses the power of collaboration across form and genre in a conversation with Patricio Ferrari.
