
Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
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Two Great Rivers, Tapajos and Amazon
i want to stay awhile in that conflux of two great rivers, tapajos and amazon. Suddenly there had been houses, people and lots of mongrel river boats skittering back and forth under a sky of gorgeous, underlit clouds. Even if one were tempted to literary interpretation, such as life, death, right, wrong, male, female, such notions would resolve, dissolve straight off in that watery, dazzling dialectic. Of course, i may be remembering it all wrong. After, after how many years, that golden evening, i really want to go no farther.I like the place. I like the idea of the place.
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