Rare and Commonplace Flowers???a Brazilian bestseller?? tells the story of two women. Elizabeth Bishop?? the Pulitzer Prize?winning American poet?? sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares?? a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography?? brilliantly researched?? and written in a lively?? novelistic style?? follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967?? the time when the two lived together in Brazil. The fact that these two women had an intimate relationship caused an uproar when it first came to publi