Two things surprised me when I first read about Fernando Pessoa while in America. First, here the great poet was known mostly by his prose volume known as "The Book of Disquiet." Second, the great poems most cited included "Salutation to Walt Whitman" and "Maritime Ode." Where was the poet and the poets, Caeiro, Campos and Reis? And where were lines such as "the poet is a sham" or "I am nothing, I will never be but nothing. I can't wish but...
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