Title: Recording a Life: Elizabeth Bishop's Letters to Ilse and Kit Barker
Abstract: Then I started the introduction [to The Diary of Helena Morley] and fussed and fussed over it, trying to get everything just right. Burton went to Diamantina in 1861, and as usual he is endlessly talkative, and absolutely accurate about everything S. .. he is amazing, and I bet his passion for exactitude and information drove his Brazilian friends mad! Then just as I got it done and would probably have written you a long letter I did something you may have seen in the paper got the Pulitzer Prize-to my astonishment. [. . .] Well, it's been very nice and lots of fun. -Elizabeth Bishop, Letter to Ilse and Kit Barker, June 5, 19561
Publication Year: 1988
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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