Twenty-one Haikus by Fernando Pessoa

Abstract

We present here a corpus of twenty-one haikus written by Fernando Pessoa, sixteen of them in English (here published for the first time) and five of them in Portuguese (one of them previously unpublished) – each poem accompanied by facsimile and critical apparatus. The documents are preceded by an introduction which aims to reconstruct the direct and indirect influences of Yone Noguchi, Ezra Pound, Walter Pater and Rogelio Buendía on the Pessoan project of recreating, in English and Portuguese, this poetic form of Japanese origins.

Keywords

• Haiku
• Japanese poetry
• Poesia inglesa
• English poetry
• Portuguese poetry
• Poesia portuguesa
• Noguchi, Yoné
• Pound, Ezra
• Pater, Walter
• Buendía, Rogelio
• Ecopoetry
• Ecopoesia