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Brazilian Journal
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A memory of Brazil and its natural beauty evokes calm, and a strange benediction, as poet P. K. Page recalls (for example) two coloured birds which alight on her husband, Arthur, at dusk, in Rio de Janeiro. Page’s three years in Brazil, from 1957 to 1959, retain this luminous, slightly surreal quality in the poet’s memory, ‘baroque’ she once called its landscape and culture.
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