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Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, [1] the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. [2]
Signature. " One Art" is a poem by American poet Elizabeth Bishop, originally published in The New Yorker in 1976. [1] Later that same year, Bishop included the poem in her book Geography III, which includes other works such as "In the Waiting Room" and "The Moose". [2] It is considered to be one of the best villanelles in the English language ...
Publication date. September 2009. ISBN. 978-1-4165-7244-2. The Anthologist is a novel about poetry by Nicholson Baker, which was first published in 2009. Its protagonist is Paul Chowder, a poet with a commission to prepare and edit an anthology of poetry, Only Rhyme. The novel shows his life, his thoughts, aspirations and struggles with writer ...
Reaching for the Moon (Portuguese: Flores Raras, "Rare Flowers") is a 2013 Brazilian biographical drama film, written by Julie Sayres and Matthew Chapman, directed by Bruno Barreto. The film is based on the book Flores Raras e Banalíssimas (in English, Rare and Commonplace Flowers), by Carmem L. Oliveira. The film dramatizes the love story of ...
Maria Carlota "Lota" Costallat de Macedo Soares (16 March 1910 – 25 September 1967) was a Brazilian landscape designer and architect. Despite not having a degree in either area, she was invited by governor Carlos Lacerda to design and oversee the construction of Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro. [1] She was born in Paris, France into a ...
Publisher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Publication date. 1965. ( 1965) Media type. Print. " First Death in Nova Scotia " is a short poem by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Questions of Travel (1965). The poem tells of a child's first experience of death in the context of a relative's wake.
Louise Crane. Louise Crane (November 11, 1913 – October 20, 1997), a prominent American philanthropist. Crane was a friend to some of New York City ’s leading literary figures, including Tennessee Williams and Marianne Moore. Crane's father Winthrop Murray Crane was an American millionaire and former governor of Massachusetts.
Born in South Carolina, Bishop studied at Furman University and obtained a double BA in Political Science and Music. She then decided to pursue a career in opera, and trained at the Juilliard School. She won the 1993 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and accepted a role at the San Francisco Opera as an Adler Fellow in 1994.