On Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet: Complete Edition
Three excerpts, with an interview by translator Margaret Jull Costa and an essay on the book’s publication.
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Factless Autobiography
Rick VanderKnyff on Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet
Interview // Margaret Jull Costa on Fernando Pessoa
by Rick VanderKnyff | Contributing Writer
Drowned Rooms
Jay Aquinas Thompson on Valerie Mejer Caso’s This Blue Novel
Dostena Anguelova: Two Poems (translation by Holly Karapetkova)
the sky—a womb stung / by countless golden bees.
Liu Xia: Two Poems
Strange shadows are everywhere / and everywhere there are traps.
Taliesin: “Nights” (translated by Katherine Robinson)
“Do you know what / you are when your eyes are shut”
Ye Lijun: Two Poems (translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain)
“I arrive again at this place, but am no longer / of that time”
Mario Luzi: “After the Party”
A little later she and I are alone in the room, / nearly ourselves again, together gathering the meager fruits / and meditating on the empty party
In Discussion // “The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa”
On September 13th, the APRIL book club gathered at Little Oddfellows in the Elliott Bay Book Company to discuss The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa.