Elizabeth Bishop

In Conversation With Umaia Perlin, the Designer

Sarah: Umaia! Look at EB! In her chair with her cat. And look at her happy foot. I’d say this is in Brazil, but maybe no. The trees look Canadian.

Umaia: We jest and jape, but every single photo of Miss Bishop makes me want to scream with absolute love and devotion. Just LOOK at her. I am SO IN LOVE that it makes me ANGRY. AAARRRRRGGHHHH.

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Sarah: I mean, look at this:

Well, the cat is flourishing and gets more spoiled and more beautiful every day. His whiskers measure, from tip to tip, including his mouth and nose, of course, ten inches, pure white whale bone.
— Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (2008)