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Title: Talking Back To Poems
Review: Mr. Alderson should get his facts straight. In chapter five ("Meaning") he erroneously refers to Carlos Drummond de Andrade as a woman; he proceeds to analyze Elizabeth Bishop's translation of a Drummond de Andrade poem based on this false assumption. A few paragraphs later he refers to the poem as Bishop's own. I have zero confidence in a book that makes such colossal mistakes.
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