SOURCE: Gledson, John. “The Exile at Home.” Times Literary Supplement (27 April 1984): 461.

In the following review of Nova Reunião, Gledson acknowledges the difficulty of classifying the poet's work into simple categories and discusses the relative lack of familiarity with Drummond in North America.

In October 1982, when Carlos Drummond de Andrade had his eightieth birthday, the public celebrations—balloons over Copacabana beach, poems showered from the air over Belo Horizonte, the capital of his native state, as well as more conventional newspaper and television adulation—might have found some echo outside Brazil. They found very little, and the loss is all our own. Drummond (pronounced Drummónd, the name he is known by, and whose origins in Brazil go back through the history of the Portuguese empire) has, I should have thought, an unassailable claim to be thought of as the greatest poet still living and writing in Latin...