His poems - musical protests, twisted hymns, dissonant celebrations of imperfection - are transcriptions of life itself recorded by a magnanimous outcast. Drummond, the most emblematic Brazilian poet, was a master of transforming the ordinary world, through language, into the sublime. 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. "Among men, the name of ‘poet' is sometimes used as a compliment or term of affection, even if the person referred to is. Brazil, according to no less an observer than Elizabeth Bishop, is a place where poets hold a place of honor. The most indispensable poems of Brazil's greatest poet.
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