Description: "Manuel Bandeira is one of the four or five most important and influential writers of twentieth-century Brazil, and it seems very worthwhile to present a large and representative portion of his poetic corpus to English-speaking readers. I am particularly pleased with the translations, all of which are good and many of which are simply wonderful."--David T. Haberly, University of Virginia
Brief description: Candace Slater is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley.