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Brazil: Karen Tei Yamashita, Elizabeth Bishop
April 24, 2013 Both write about human efforts that come to nothing. Bishop’s Manuelzinho begins bravely, planting gardens that ravish the eye: beds of cabbages edged with red carnations, lettuces with alyssum. But then “silver umbrella ants arrive,/ or it … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, Cain, Elizabeth Bishop, Karen Tei Yamashita, Manuelzinho, Matacao, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
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