{"product_id":"24856-chesterton-g-k-bishop-elizabeth-bidart-frank-saint-thomas-aquinas-the-dumb-ox","title":"Chesterton, G.K. (1874-1936) [Bishop, Elizabeth. (1911-1979)] [Bidart, Frank. (b. 1939)] \"Saint Thomas Aquinas\"-\"The Dumb Ox\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHardcover. 8vo. 248 pp. Fine, in green boards, blue lettering to spin; dj in very good condition, price-clipped on bottom and top of front flap, nicks to edges.\u003cem\u003e\u003ci lang=\"pt\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eFrom the Library of Elizabeth Bishop, thence to Frank Bidart and with the ownership signature of Bishop's partner, Maria Carlota \"Lota\" Costallat de Macedo Soares (1910 - 1967) on the ffe [dated January 15th, 1945 in Portuguese] and Bidart's signature to the following page. An interesting association copy of Chesterton's influential biography on the pioneer of modern theological practice in the tradition of Western Christianity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLota, as the Brazilian landscape designer and architect was known, had a relationship with the American poet Elizabeth Bishop from 1951 to 1967. Bishop dedicated her 1965 volume of poems\u0026amp;nbsp;Questions of Travel\u0026amp;nbsp;to her. Their relationship is depicted in the Brazilian film Reaching for the Moon, based on the book\u0026amp;nbsp;Flores Raras e Banalíssimas\u0026amp;nbsp;(Carmen Lucia de Oliveira). In 1967, after Soares had been through a period of extensive hospitalization for a nervous breakdown, she joined Bishop in New York City but that same day took an overdose of tranquilizers and died several days later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bishop's status as one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century is based on the smallest of oeuvres. Some 70 poems were published in her lifetime in four very slim volumes. She died in 1979, aware that her reputation was steadily increasing, eclipsing that of her close friend and fellow poet Robert Lowell. Since her death and the publication of two superb volumes of her correspondence,\u0026amp;nbsp;One Art\u0026amp;nbsp;and\u0026amp;nbsp;Words in Air\u0026amp;nbsp;(letters between her and Lowell) it has grown ever more secure. In the select pantheon of 20th-century poets writing in English, she is placed with TS Eliot, WB Yeats, Wallace Stevens and WH Auden. Her poems often took her years to write and complete, and their formal perfection and the simple, limpid accuracy of their language have always drawn the admiration of other poets. John Ashbery called her \"the writer's writer's writer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His signature of ownership is on the half title page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62556143059103,"sku":"24856","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Chesterton_Bishop_SaintThomasAquinasDumbOx24856a.jpg?v=1762022410","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/24856-chesterton-g-k-bishop-elizabeth-bidart-frank-saint-thomas-aquinas-the-dumb-ox","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}