Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss.
Wer kennt ihn nicht - den Streit der Tiere um das Wichtigste an Weihnachten?Schließlich erinnert der Esel den Ochsen an das Kind in der Krippe. Die Hauptsache an Weihnachten. »Übrigens«, fragt der Ochse zum Schluss, »wissen das die Menschen eigentlich?«