“Dear Poet”: CDA’s letters to DCS

Abstract

Until now unpublished, the 21 letters that Carlos Drummond de Andrade sent, over 31 years (1943-1974), to Domingos Carvalho da Silva were filed by the receiver together with other letters received from different writers. Such correspondence shows the dialogue between both, a dialogue that, however, goes beyond the tensions between the modernist poet and the defender of the “Geração de 45”, silencing them, leaving them only underlying. In this article, the purpose is to show this set of letters, through commented fragments, in order to highlight another side of the relationship between these two poets, often located in opposite and antagonistic fields of brazilian poetry after 1945.