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Article: Manuel Bandeira. Selected Poems.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- October 1, 2003
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Manuel Bandeira. Selected Poems. David R. Slavitt, tr. Horacio Costa, intro. Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York. Sheep Meadow Press (University Press of New England, distr.). 2002. xviii + 153 pages. $12.95. ISBN 1-931357-01-3
ACCORDING TO Mario de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira was "the John the Baptist of modernismo--that is, of the great flowering of avant-garde expression that would take place in Brazil in the 1920s. Beyond any doubt, Bandeira, the renowned Brazilian poet and professor of literature (at what is now the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) who lived from 1886 to 1968, was highly influential in the transition to modernismo. During his long life, he had ...