|
Product Description
The most indispensable poems of Brazil's greatest poet
Brazil, according to no less an observer than Elizabeth Bishop, is a place where poets hold a place of honor. "Among men, the name of ‘poet' is sometimes used as a compliment or term of affection, even if the person referred to is . . . not a poet at all. One of the most famous twentieth-century poets, Manuel Bandeira, was presented with a permanent parking space in front of his apartment house in Rio de Janeiro, with an enamelled sign POETA―although he never owned a car and didn't know how to drive." In a culture like this, it is difficult to underestimate the importance of the nation's greatest poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
Drummond, the most emblematic Brazilian poet, was a master of transforming the ordinary world, through language, into the sublime. His poems―musical protests, twisted hymns, dissonant celebrations of imperfection―are transcriptions of life itself recorded by a magnanimous outcast. As he put it in his "Seven-Sided Poem": "When I was born, one of those twisted / angels who live in the shadows said: / ‘Carlos, get ready to be a misfit in life!' . . . World so wide, world so large, / my heart's even larger."
Multitudinous Heart, the most generous selection of Drummond's poems available in English, gathers work from the various phases of this restless, brilliant modernist. Richard Zenith's selection and translation brings us a more vivid and surprising poet than we knew.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Becoming Brazil: New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir (Mānoa)
- Brazil: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companions)
- An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation)
- Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti and Songs from the Quechua
- Near to the Wild Heart (Ndp; 1225)
- Dom Casmurro: A Novel (FSG Classics)
- The Slum (Library of Latin America)
- Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)
- Lost Children Archive: A novel
- American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time
*If this is not the "Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Nov 21, 2024 19:34 +08.