. . . "Their discussions of books, articles and the literary scene; their agreements and disagreements about T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Mary McCarthy, William Empson and other writers; their arguments about each other???s work; and their observations of Brazilian and American political life are set alongside Bishop???s descriptions of" . . . . . . . .