{"product_id":"multitudinous-heart-selected-poems-9780374535490","title":"Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most indispensable poems of Brazil's greatest poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374535490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Carlos Drummond de Andrade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44988134064309,"sku":"9780374535490","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0ed5da6b-7b40-4b12-8036-e1444850c0e3.jpg?v=1735626326","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/multitudinous-heart-selected-poems-9780374535490","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}