Rare and Commonplace Flowers
Subtitle: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota De Macedo Soares
Contributors: Neil K. Besner (Translator)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780813533599
Subjects: Biography: general; Individual architects; Lesbian studies; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; Specific Groups - Lesbians; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Brazil; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Literary
First sentence: A WHITE-HAIRED WOMAN WITH SAD EYES rereads the first two lines of a poem that she has been trying, interminably, to finish: Of course I may be remembering it all wrong after, after-how many years?