{"product_id":"pessoa-fernando-the-marinepb","title":"Pessoa, Fernando: The Mariner","description":"\u003cp\u003eSublunary Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Geoffrey Brock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 27, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mariner: A Static Drama in One Act\u003c\/em\u003e (1913), Fernando Pessoa’s only completed play, features three women in a circular room in an old castle keeping vigil over a dead body. As their conversation unfolds, the mystery of their situation deepens, and they circle around the knot at the heart of the play: the relation between dream and reality, memory and grief. Altogether, it is a strange, brief, and haunting work. This bilingual facing edition of the play includes an essay on the \u003cem\u003eThe Mariner\u003c\/em\u003e by Antonio Tabucchi, as well as an afterword by translator Geoffrey Brock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFernando Pessoa (Jun. 13, 1888 – Nov. 30, 1935) was a Portuguese poet, translator, and literary critic. He is best known today for \u003cem\u003eLivro do Desassossego\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Book of Disquiet\u003c\/em\u003e) and the poetry he wrote under the heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Brock is the author of three books of poems (most recently \u003cem\u003eAfter\u003c\/em\u003e), the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, and the translator of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, prose, and comics, mostly from Italian. His translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti's \u003cem\u003eAllegria\u003c\/em\u003e received the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44059806433303,"sku":"9781969287053","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1759605544-900.png?v=1764194378","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/pessoa-fernando-the-marinepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}