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[Carlos Drummond de Andrade] ë Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Portuguese Edition) ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Portuguese Edition) Mary Harwell Sayler said Multifaceted. In his home country of Brazil, Carlos Drummond de Andrade was lauded a great poet in his lifetime (190"Multifaceted" according to Mary Harwell Sayler. In his home country of Brazil, Carlos Drummond de Andrade was lauded a great poet in his lifetime (1902-1987) with his poems reaching beyond borders, thanks first to John Nist then such well-known American poets as Elizabeth Bishop and, later, Mark Strand, who translated his work from Portuguese into English.
| Title | : | Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Portuguese Edition) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (962 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374535493 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-21 |
| Language | : | Portuguese |
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 POETAalthough 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. The most indispensable poems of Brazil's greatest poetBrazil, according to no less an observer than Elizabeth Bishop, is a place where poets hold a place of honor. His poemsmusical protests, twisted hymns, dissonant celebrations of imperfectionare 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
Richard Zenith lived in Brazil and France before immigrating to Portugal in 1987. Few critics or serious readers would dispute his status as Brazil's greatest poet. During six decades of writing, his work went through many phases, transcending styles and schools while being strongly influenced by modernism. He has translated the poetry of Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Jo&atild
Mary Harwell Sayler said Multifaceted. In his home country of Brazil, Carlos Drummond de Andrade was lauded a great poet in his lifetime (190"Multifaceted" according to Mary Harwell Sayler. In his home country of Brazil, Carlos Drummond de Andrade was lauded a great poet in his lifetime (1902-1987) with his poems reaching beyond borders, thanks first to John Nist then such well-known American poets as Elizabeth Bishop and, later, Mark Strand, who translated his work from Portuguese into English. Now, Richard Zenith has translated the poems in a new bilingual edition, Multitudinous Heart, published by Farrar Straus Giroux, who kindly sent me a copy to review for which I’m most grateful. Without this highly recommended book, I m. -1987) with his poems reaching beyond borders, thanks first to John Nist then such well-known American poets as Elizabeth Bishop and, later, Mark Strand, who translated his work from Portuguese into English. Now, Richard Zenith has translated the poems in a new bilingual edition, Multitudinous Heart, published by Farrar Straus Giroux, who kindly sent me a copy to review for which I’m most grateful. Without this highly recommended book, I m. Peter said Terrific book!. Terrific book! Terrific poetry! Terrific service from Amazon.com!. Five Stars Rodney E. Temples Great book.
He is by turns melancholy and ironic, sentimental and self-deprecating, remote and boyish.Mr. "In new translations by Richard Zenith, we meet a sophisticated and cerebral poet who, true to this book's title, speaks in many registers. Drummond is worth encountering on the page."The New York Times"One of Brazil’s most important poets."Publishers Weekly
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