{"product_id":"9780374713935","title":"Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition","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","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104209780976,"sku":"9780374713935","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374713935_p0.jpg?v=1763691067","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374713935","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}