Selected Poems

by Bandeira, Manuel

• ISBN13: 9781931357012
• ISBN10: 1931357013
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr

Summary

Widely accepted as the greatest of the Brazilian Modernist poets, Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) spent most of his life suffering from tuberculosis. It has been said "his poetry spits blood" and yet he is a poet of wit and humor. Bandeira's poetry wanders through Brazil's hidden life, beauty and language, through the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon, European and Brazilian civilization. He convalesced at the sanitarium Thomas Mann described where his fellow patient was Paul Luard. Readers may see a certain brotherhood between these two great poets. Bandeira's gifts as a poet and his humanity were much appreciated by Elizabeth Bishop. There is something of the carnival in Bandeira's poetry, a wild celebration that precedes and perhaps precluded the Passion. He is a poet of revelation, mystery and strangely ironic humor. This volume has been translated brilliantly by David Slavitt, who has translated more than forty books. His translations from the Greek include the Metamorphoses of Ovid, The Fables of Avianus, the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, and Seneca: The Tragedies, Vols. 1 and 2.

Table of Contents

Preparation for Death	p. 3
To Mario Andrade, Absent	p. 5
Absolute Death	p. 7
Dead of Night	p. 9
Guardian Angel	p. 11
Jacqueline	p. 13
Cafe Moment	p. 15
Poem Made from a Newspaper Item	p. 17
Poem Teased out of a Prose Piece by Augusto Frederico Schmidt	p. 19
Antonia	p. 21
Prayer to Our Lady of the Good Death	p. 23
Song of a Suicide	p. 25
Sparrow	p. 27
Mozart in Heaven	p. 29
Supper	p. 31
Profoundly	p. 33
Wedding of the Spirit	p. 39
Pilgrimage	p. 41
Naked	p. 43
Morning Star	p. 47
Guinea Pig	p. 51
In the Mouth	p. 53
Dona Janaina	p. 55
A Madrigal, Modest but Sincere	p. 57
Cossante	p. 59
Ballad of the Three Araxa Soap Women	p. 61
Art of Love	p. 63
The Woods	p. 67
The Waves	p. 69
Song of the Wind and My Life	p. 71
Satellite	p. 73
Reality and Image	p. 75
New Moon	p. 77
Green-Black	p. 79
Cricket	p. 81
The Cactus	p. 83
Beautiful, Beautiful	p. 85
Theme and Variations	p. 87
Swallow	p. 89
Star	p. 91
Pension Garden	p. 93
Last Song of the Alley	p. 95
The Hammer	p. 99
Pneumothorax	p. 101
Cruel Story	p. 103
Contrition	p. 105
The Beast	p. 107
Captain's Rondo	p. 109
Brazilian Tragedy	p. 111
Christmas Verses	p. 113
Verses for Joaquim	p. 115
The Virgin Mary	p. 117
The Toads	p. 121
Poetics	p. 127
The Last Poem	p. 129
New Poetics	p. 131
Anthology	p. 133
Nocturne of Amorim Station	p. 137
Evocation of Recife	p. 139
Breeze	p. 147
Excuse	p. 149
Pasargada	p. 151
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