(Ebook) Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Carlos Drummond de Andrade ISBN 9780374280703, 0374280703

(Ebook) Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Carlos Drummond de Andrade ISBN 9780374280703, 0374280703

Brazil, according to no less an observer than Elizabeth Bishop, is a country where poets hold a place of honor: "The name of the 'poet' is sometimes used as a compliment or term of affection, even if the person referred to is . . . not a poet at all." In a culture such as this, where poets are indeed acknowledged as treasures, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of Brazil's national poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade. "World so wide, world so large, / my heart's even larger": Drummond 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!!'" Multitudinous Heart, the most generous selection of Drummond's poems available in English, gathers work from the various phases of this restless, brilliant modernist's career. Richard Zenith's authoritative selection and beautifully rendered translation bring us a more vivid and surprising poet than we knew - one of the century's greatest.