Multitudinous Heart

✍ Scribed by Andrade, Carlos Drummond De

• Book ID: 109801336
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 692 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780374713935

✦ Synopsis

**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...