{"product_id":"black-beans-and-diamonds-neil-k-besner-9780807186107","title":"Black Beans and Diamonds: Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop","description":"\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil K. Besner,Regina Przybycien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807186104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807186107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Neil K. Besner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48623528411391,"sku":"9780807186107","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-beans-and-diamonds-neil-k-besner-9780807186107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}