{"product_id":"black-beans-and-diamonds-brazil-in-the-work-of-elizabeth-bishop-hardcover","title":"Black Beans and Diamonds: Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRegina Przybycien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNeil K. Besner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eThomas Travisano\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRegina Przybycien\u003c\/b\u003e, a retired Brazilian professor of American and comparative literature, recently translated into Portuguese a book of poetry by Lloyd Schwartz (from English) and three books by Wislawa Szymborska (from Polish). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCanadian writer\u003cb\u003e Neil K. Besner\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Rio de Janeiro. His prizewinning translation of Carmen L. Oliviera's \u003ci\u003eRare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares\u003c\/i\u003e provided a major source for the 2013 feature film \u003ci\u003eReaching for the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e (in Brazil, \u003ci\u003eFlores Raras\u003c\/i\u003e). He is professor emeritus of English at The University of Winnipeg and the author of books on Canadian writers Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro, among others.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53522197643571,"sku":"9780807186107","price":50.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SELjC-MpYH9780807186107.webp?v=1781966753","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/black-beans-and-diamonds-brazil-in-the-work-of-elizabeth-bishop-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}