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  title info:
    title: Black beans and diamonds
    sub title: Brazil in the work of Elizabeth Bishop
  title info:
    title: Feijão-preto e diamantes. English
  name:
    name part: Przybycien, Regina
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Besner, Neil Kalman
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: writer of preface.
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/trl
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/wpr
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Translations
  genre: Literary criticism.
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Critiques littéraires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: por
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien's Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational study of the critical and highly productive years from 1951 to 1974 during which the American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived and worked in Brazil. Now available in English for the first time, the book provides Bishop scholars and her steadily growing audience of general readers a uniquely informed Brazilian perspective on the writer. Przybyzien discusses Bishop's many important poems set in Brazil and her translations of Brazilian poetry and prose, as well as her thoughts on the country, including her conflicted and complex relationship with its local culture, the Portuguese language, the rigidly observed social strata, its geography and cities (as explored during her wide travels throughout Brazil), its charged politics, and its architecture. Bishop's most important personal relationship, with the formidable, multitalented architect Lota de Macedo Soares, is addressed at length, along with her translations into English of major Brazilian poets such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade and João Cabral de Melo Neto. Elegantly translated into English by Neil K. Besner-and featuring a foreword by biographer Thomas Travisano, founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society-Black Beans and Diamonds presents the most substantial Brazilian treatment yet written of the extent to which Bishop's sojourn in Brazil profoundly shaped her life and work"-- Provided by publisher.
  note: Regina Przybycien ; translated, with a new preface, by Neil K. Besner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: s-bl---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bishop, Elizabeth
      name part: 1911-1979
    topic: Homes and haunts
    geographic: Brazil
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bishop, Elizabeth
      name part: 1911-1979
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Poets, American
    geographic: Brazil
  subject:
    geographic: Brazil
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bishop, Elizabeth
      name part: 1911-1979
  classification: PS3503.I785 Z84513 2026
  classification: 811/.52
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    title info:
      title: Black beans and diamonds
    name:
      name part: Przybycien, Regina
    origin info:
      publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2026
    identifier: (DLC) 2026020976
  identifier: 9780807186107
  identifier: 0807186104
  identifier: 9780807187043
  identifier: 9780807187050
  identifier: 2026020975
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260513
    record change date: 20260808204505.1
    record identifier: in00005790148
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng