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A tribute to the poet (18)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 87 W: 53 N: 228]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (1157) | This is the statue of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a major reference when it comes to brazilian literature and poetry.
Written on this bench at Copacabana beach, one of his quotes:
"From the sea, a city was meant to be"
One of his more well-known poems, "Seven-Sided Poem", is made up of seven un-uniform stanzas, with the content of each remaining independent of the others, not unlike the associative gaps of the Persian ghazal. They leap from a darkly comic enthusiasm ("When I was born, one of those/crooked angels who live in shadow/said: Go on, Carlos, be gauche in life"), to voyeuristic personifications and surrealist conditionals ("The houses look out on men/chasing after women./If the afternoon were blue/there might be less desire"), to a shocked fragmentation of a trolley car "full of legs".
Winter of 1987, Julieta, his only daughter died. Carlos Drummond de Andrade passed away 12 days later, at the age of 85. |
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