Renato's Dream
Brazil, 1991
Such a sweet dream. I dreamed
I was having a conversation
with the great poets—Manuel
Bandeira and Carlos Drummond
de Andrade. “I was born
tired, hungry, and cold,” I said.
And Drummond answered, “I too.”
Credit
Copyright © 1993 by Lloyd Schwartz. This poem originally appeared in Harvard Magazine, March 1993. Used with permission of the author.
Author
Lloyd Schwartz
Schwartz’s most recent book of poetry is Little Kisses (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He was named the Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts in 2019. In 2021, Schwartz received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Date Published
03/01/1993