Article: UNC: Public, proposals invited for conference in Brazil on poet Elizabeth Bishop.

M2 PRESSWIRE-18 August 1998-UNC: Public, proposals invited for conference in Brazil on poet Elizabeth Bishop (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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CHAPEL HILL -- Elizabeth Bishop is emerging as one of the major poets of the latter 20th century. Poets revere the spare beauty of her verse, her powers of description and understatement. Her refusal to condescend or pontificate.

For 18 years in the 1950s and '60s, Bishop tapped her muse while living in the charming Brazilian town of Ouro Preto, where the first major international conference of scholars, performers and admirers of Bishop's work will be held May 19-21, 1999.

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