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Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person

Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fernando Pessoa, Erín Moure (Translator)Publish date:2001-04-01Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:House of Anansi PressISBN-13:9780887846601ISBN-10:887846602UPC:9780887846601Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Canadian, EuropeanSize:8.50 x 5.44 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCG1263FV4
A temporary move to Toronto in the winter of 2000, a twisted ankle, an empty house -- all inspired Moure as she read Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa's classic long poem O Guardador de Rebanhos. For fun, she started to translate, altering tones and vocabularies. From the Portuguese countryside and roaming sheep of 1914, a 21st century Toronto emerged, its neighbourhoods still echoing the 1950s, their dips and hollows, hordes of wild cats, paved creeks. Her poem became a translation, a transcreation, the jubilant and irrepressible vigil of a fervent person. "Suddenly," says Moure impishly, "I had found my master." Caeiro's sheep were his thoughts and his thoughts, he claimed, were all sensations. Moure's sheep are stray cats and from her place in Caeiro's poetry, she creates a woman alive in an urban world where the rural has not vanished, where the archaic suffuses us even when we do not beckon it, and yet the present tense floods us fully.
Language:EnglishPublisher:House of Anansi PressISBN-13:9780887846601ISBN-10:887846602UPC:9780887846601Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Canadian, EuropeanSize:8.50 x 5.44 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCG1263FV4
Publisher: House of Anansi Press

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