The presence of Pessoa : English, American, and Southern African literary responses / George Monteiro.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 Works and Days; 2 Old School Loyalties: Roy Campbell; 3 Poet and Antipoet: Edouard Roditi and Thomas Merton; 4 Dominoes: Edwin Honig; 5 City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti; 6 Barbaric Complaint: Allen Ginsberg; 7 Blue Tiles: Joyce Carol Oates; 8 Durban Echoes: Charles Eglington; 9 Looking for Mr. Person: Michael Hamburger, John Wain, Andrew Harvey, and Dennis Silk; Appendix: Roy Campbell's Fernando Pessoa; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Fernando Pessoa (1888--1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century. Born in Portugal but raised and educated in southern Africa, Pessoa wrote poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. George Monteiro provides refreshingly new interpretations of Pessoa's Mensagem (Message) and the modernist novella 0 Banqueiro Anarquista (The Anarchist Banker). But he is primarily interested in tracing Pessoa's influence on a wide range of contemporary writers. Among those Monteiro finds putting Pessoa's work to their own surprising -- and sometimes comic -- uses are Joyce Carol.

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