RetailCan you solve America’s health care crisis? Do you have a plan that would serve the people, fix spending, and bring prosperity back to our country?These are the questions the newly elected president, Andrew Cannon, poses to the public.Six years after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, time has shown it is not the answer. Richard Zenith's selection and translation brings us a more vivid and surprising poet than we knew.

World so wide, world so large, / my heart's even larger.' Multitudinous Heart, the most generous selection of Drummond's poems available in English, gathers work from the various phases of this restless, brilliant modernist. As he put it in his 'Seven-Sided Poem': 'When I was born, one of those twisted / angels who live in the shadows said: / ‘Carlos, get ready to be a misfit in life!'. 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.

Soul Bound by Nicholas Woode-Smith