by Georgia Dias & Boca The Elephant, translated by Mark Strand. From Ploughshares, 1975. In the Middle of the Road, translated by Elizabeth Bishop. Biography of Carlos Drummond de Andrade . Carmos Drummond de Andrade recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive on July 29, 1974 References 1902 births 1987 deaths People from Minas Gerais Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian people of Scottish descent Brazilian communists Communist poets Brazilian male poets Brazilian agnostics Modernist poets Portuguese-language writers 20th-century Brazilian poets Carlos 20th-century Brazilian male writers Culture in Minas Gerais