True, my 23 year-old self in 2007 was mesmerized with him in a way I never could be now. About Disquiet, it has its detractors. The Scottish poet Don Paterson, in one of his excellent books of aphorisms (either The Blind Eye or The Book of Shadows) said he didn't see what the big deal was, and dismissed him as a pretentious whiner. I wouldn't go that far, but uneven is a fair assessment. I'm a big fan of much of the poetry (especially Alvaro de Campos) and some of the prose in Selected Prose and A Centenary Pessoa, though. The Dadaist manifesto-ish "Ultimatum" from Selected Prose is a hoot, with its colorful denunciations of writers and politicians around the time of WWI, and the immortal exclamation "You grand finale of fools!"
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Date: 2016-09-30 05:16 am (UTC)