[New-Poetry] Pessoa lives

[Anny Ballardini]

That is more or less what I thought when I visited his home with
astrological charts drawn in the narrow entrance on the floor and on the
walls.
I don't think he would be that happy to know that several thousands or
millions trampled on them:
http://casafernandopessoa.cm-lisboa.pt/index.php?id=2246


On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:16 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3_tdUVjNDAo&refer=home
> Dine With a Dead Poet: Pessoa, Lisbon's Joyce, Draws Cafe Crowd
> By Anabela Reis
>
> Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- In downtown Lisbon, tourists pose beside a life-size
> bronze statue of a man in a hat and bow tie sitting on a chair at a sidewalk
> cafe.
>
> They're joining, sometimes unwittingly, a stream of visitors drawn to
> Fernando Pessoa, Portugal's most famous 20th-century poet and something of a
> cult figure, with his image splashed all over town.
>
> "It's ironic because Pessoa didn't like to stand out from the crowd,"
> translator Richard Zenith says on the sidelines of a Lisbon conference
> dedicated to the poet.
>
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