{"product_id":"black-beans-and-diamonds-brazil-in-the-work-of-elizabeth-bishop-hardback-9780807186107","title":"Black Beans and Diamonds; Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop (Hardback) 9780807186107","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack Beans and Diamonds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBrazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNeil K. Besner (Translated by), Regina Przybycien (Author), Thomas Travisano (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807186107\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e202 pages\u003cbr\u003e1.6 x 14 x 21.6 cm, 0.39 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The great American poet Elizabeth Bishop spent two of the most productive decades of her life in Brazil, where she wrote some of her greatest poems and stories. Regina Przybycien's \u003ci\u003eFeijão-Preto e Diamantes \u003c\/i\u003ewas the first large-scale study of Bishop in Brazil by a Brazilian writer and one of the most incisive and moving books about the depth and complexity of her life and work in any language. This is an important book, and admirers of Bishop should be grateful that it is finally available in English, in this eloquent translation by Neil Besner.\" - Lloyd Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic, poet, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bishop and Her Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What does Bishop get right (and wrong) about Brazil, and how have Brazilian readers returned her endlessly curious, quizzical gaze? Przybycien provides a compelling account of Bishop's most important elsewhere, in which we learn not just what Bishop thought of Brazil but also what Brazil thought of Bishop.\" - Jonathan Ellis, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bishop in Context\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Przybycien's book conveys the knowledge of a Portuguese-speaking Brazilian insider familiar with the global scope of the cultural, linguistic, and poetic vectors that inform Brazil and Bishop's writing there.\" - Angus Cleghorn, editor of \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A pioneering study on Bishop and Brazil, this book offers a captivating contextual reading of the poet's writings about the country. This is an important contribution to Bishop scholarship, in a careful and high-quality translation.\" - Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins, author of \u003ci\u003eDuas Artes: Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Elizabeth Bishop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Przybycien shows how Brazilian culture, with which Bishop always had an ambiguous and conflicted relationship, influenced her writing, including how Bishop's translations of Carlos Drummond de Andrade were crucial for her own late poems.\" - Paulo Henriques Britto, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien's \u003ci\u003eBlack Beans and Diamonds \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegantly translated into English by Neil K. Besner—and featuring a foreword by biographer Thomas Travisano, founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society—\u003ci\u003eBlack Beans and Diamonds \u003c\/i\u003epresents the most substantial Brazilian treatment yet written of the extent to which Bishop's sojourn in Brazil profoundly shaped her life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676617437464,"sku":"9780807186107","price":25.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-beans-and-diamonds-brazil-in-the-work-of-elizabeth-bishop-hardback-9780807186107","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}