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Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil BETHANY HICOK University of Virginia Press CHARLOTTESVILLE AND LONDON University of Virginia Press © 2016 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First published 2016 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hicok, Bethany, 1958– author. Title: Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil / Bethany Hicok. Description: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2015035911 | isbn 9780813938547 (cloth : acid-free paper) | isbn 9780813938530 (pbk. : acid-free paper) | isbn 9780813938554 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911–1979—Homes and haunts—Brazil. | Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911–1979—Criticism and interpretation. | Women poets, American— 20th century. | Literature and society—Brazil. | Women translators—Brazil. | Travel writing—Brazil. | Women intellectuals—United States—Biography. | Brazil— Intellectual life—20th century. Classification: lcc ps3503.i785 z695 2016 | ddc 811/.54—dc23 lc record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035911 Cover art: Bishop swimming in the rock pool at Samambaia. (VC 100.25; Courtesy of Vassar College) For Jonathan More than anything else I wanted to stay awhile —Elizabeth Bishop, “Santarém” Contents Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii Prologue 1 One Samambaia and the Architecture of Class 9 Two Letters from the Road 38 Three Bishop’s Brazilian Translations 64 Four Bishop’s Brazilian Politics 97 Five Amazon Worlds 121 Notes 147 Bibliography 163 Index 171
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