Better Than Friday - 52 (Patreon)

Good morning everyone, hope ya'll are safe and well, thanks for supporting the show. 

1. Heyyyy...New Fernando Pessoa

I haven't read anything since The Book of Disquiet, so I'm very much looking forward to this new release, which seems to be 'written' by one of his heteronyms. 

A bilingual companion to The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa 

Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari’s splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary “heteronym” coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend, the poet Mário de Sa-Cárrneiro. What followed was a collection of some of Fernando Pessoa’s greatest poems, grouped under the titles The Keeper of Sheep, The Shepherd in Love, and Uncollected Poems. This imaginary author was a shepherd who spent most of his life in the countryside, had almost no education, and was ignorant of most literature; yet he (Pessoa) wrote some of the most beautiful and profound poems in Portuguese literature. This edition of The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro is based on the magnificent Portuguese Tinta-da-China edition, published in Lisbon in 2016, and contains an illuminating introduction by the Portuguese editors Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari, some facsimiles of the original Portuguese texts, and prose excerpts about Caeiro and his work written by Fernando Pessoa well as his other heteronyms Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis, and other fictitious authors such as Antonio Mora and I. I. Crosse.

- From Amazon

2. Summer in the City 

I heard this played on our local Jazz radio KMHD the other day. 

Cool music for hot weather. 

3. A Medieval Library In Switzerland I'd Love to Visit 

A fan recently clued me in to this gorgeous library. 

The library collection is the oldest in Switzerland, and one of earliest and most important monastic libraries in the world. The library holds almost 160,000 volumes, with most available for public use. 

4. Autographed copy of Heliogabalus by Artaud.

This is a signed copy of Heliogabalus inscribed to Artaud's friend Andre Lhote.

5. Leaf by Leaf - Another fellow on Youtube reviewing books

Some great stuff on here!

It's like the tree is giving the tenant of the Lone Fir Cemetery an eternal hug.