Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Brazilian poet and writer (1902–1987), a leading figure of 20th-century Brazilian modernist poetry. Born in Itabira, Minas Gerais, he published landmark collections including Alguma Poesia (1930) and A Rosa do Povo (1945) and worked as a civil servant, journalist and translator.
Books
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1. José
A spare, urgent voice confronts an ordinary man who has lost work, love and social footing and now faces crushing loneliness and bewilderment; stripped of roles and comforts, he is caught between paralysis and the faint, often ironic suggestions of small acts—laughter, anger, song—that might puncture his isolation, the poem laying bare modern alienation and the painful gap between desire and action.