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This selection draws on de Andrade's anthology to encompass his finest works within his chosen areas of interest: The Individual, Minas Gerais, Family, Friends, Social Confrontation, Experience of Love, Poetry Itself, and An Attempt to Understand Existence  Feted as the most important - and premiere modernist - Brazilian poet of the twentieth century, Carlos Drummond de Andrade appears in Penguin Classics for the first time.  His fans and translators have included Mark Strand, Lloyd Schwartz and Elizabeth Bishop.  The work of Drummond reaches ... a coefficient of loneliness that detached from the soil of history, leading the reader to an attitude free of references, trademarks or ideological or prospective - Alfredo Bosi, author and historian   Carlos Drummond de Andrade was born in a Brazilian mining village in 1902. He worked in government for most of his life. He has received widespread recognition for his modernist style of poetry which broke from more traditional rules of verse and meter. He has been embraced as a national poet with a statue placed on the sea front in Rio and his poem 'Friendly Song' printed on Brazilian currency. 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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 \u003cbr\u003e \"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!\"\u003cbr\u003e \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'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.\u003c\/p\u003e 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!\"\u003cbr\u003e \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's career. 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