{"product_id":"multitudinous-heart-paperback-1","title":"Multitudinous Heart - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarl Drummond de Andrade\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most indispensable poems of Brazil's greatest poet \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrazil, 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMultitudinous Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlos Drummond de Andrade\u003c\/b\u003e (1902-1987) was born in a small town in Minas Gerais. While he spent most of his life working as a government bureaucrat, he regarded poetry as his true vocation, and his first book was published in 1930. During six decades of writing, his work went through many phases, transcending styles and schools while being strongly influenced by modernism. Few critics or serious readers would dispute his status as Brazil's greatest poet. \u003cb\u003eRichard Zenith\u003c\/b\u003e lived in Brazil and France before immigrating to Portugal in 1987. He has translated the poetry of Lu?s de Cam?es, Fernando Pessoa, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Jo?o Cabral de Melo Neto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 23, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353529270521,"sku":"9780374535490","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Lp7tQjrAVt9780374535490_b1276a72-dda1-4bc0-8b6b-2bfd3eb2f396.webp?v=1769825098","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/multitudinous-heart-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}