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Looking for poetry : poems / by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti and songs from the Quechua ; translated by Mark Strand.

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  1. Looking for poetry : poems / by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti and songs from the Quechua ; translated by Mark Strand.
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  1. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002.

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  1. Strand, Mark, 1934-
  2. Andrade, Carlos Drummond de, 1902-1987.
  3. Alberti, Rafael, 1902-1999.
  4. Strand, Mark, 1934-2014
  5. Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
Description
  1. viii, 173 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. Carlos Drummond de Andrade, one of the most revered Brazilian poets of the twentieth century, was born in 1902 in a small mining town; he died in Rio de Janeiro in 1987. His poems are, for the most part, bittersweet evocations of a small-town childhood, or, more emblematically, remorseful accounts of a lost world or simply discreet and sometimes ironic views of the way things are. Songs from the Quechua are translated from Spanish version of the folk poetry of the Quechua Indians of South America, collected and transcribed in the nineteenth century by priests and, more recently, by anthropologists. They convey a degree of tenderness that is unusual in any poetry. Rafael Alberti was born in 1902 in Spain and was in exile in Argentina during the Spanish Civil War. He died in 1999. These fifty poems provide an ample introduction to one of the twentieth century's great poets. -- From publisher's description.
Subject
  1. Poetry
  2. Translations
  3. Andrade, Carlos Drummond de, 1902-1987 > Translations into English
  4. Alberti, Rafael, 1902-1999 > Translations into English
Genre/Form
  1. Translations
  2. Poetry
Contents
  1. Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade: Seven-sided poem -- In the middle of the road -- Quadrille -- The onset of love -- Ballad of love through the ages -- Dawn -- Don't kill yourself -- Song of the phantom girl of Belo Horizonte -- Boy crying in the night -- The dead in frock coats -- Your shoulders hold up the world -- Souvenir of the ancient world -- Motionless faces -- José -- The dirty hand -- Looking for poetry -- In the golden age -- Residue -- Story of the dress -- The elephant -- Death in a plane -- Interpretation of December -- An ox looks at a man -- Song for a young girl's album -- Encounter.
  2. Songs from the Quechua: To this song -- The butterfly messenger -- Pastoral -- Song, from Ollantay -- Lovely woman -- Crystalline river -- The grass is crying -- My mother gave me life -- Song -- I am raising a fly -- War song -- When you find yourself alone -- Not even dew -- The fire I started -- Little lizard -- My treasure -- Going away -- In the morning.
  3. Poems by Rafael Albert: Song -- To Miss X, buried in the west wind -- Swimmer -- Platko -- The angel of numbers -- Song of the luckless angel -- The moldy angel -- The angel of ash -- The good angel -- The avaricious angel -- The good angel -- The sleepwalking angels -- Three memories of heaven -- The angel of sand -- The bad moment -- The grade-school angels -- Living snow -- Invitation to the harp -- The false angels -- The dead angels -- The surviving angel -- They have gone -- That burning horse in the lost forests -- Two children -- Fragments of a wish -- That's the way it is -- Charlie's sad date -- Harold Lloyd, student -- Buster Keaton looks in the woods for his love who is a real cow -- On the day of his death by an armed hand -- Metamorphosis of the carnation -- To Luis Cernuda: looking for southern air in England -- Going back to a birthday -- Going back through color -- The coming back of live in bright landscapes -- The coming back of love on the sands -- Facing the Spanish coast -- The coming back of an assassinated poet -- The coming back of Vicente Aleixandre -- Ballad of what the wind said -- Ballad of the country idlers -- Ballad of the lost Andalusian.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Poems from previously published collections.
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  1. Includes bibliographical references.
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