Lota de Macedo Soares
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Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares was a Brazilian aesthete from a prominent political family, who conceived and constructed the Parque do Flamengo (Park of the Flamingo) in Rio de Janeiro.
Lota, as she was known, maintained a lesbian relationship relationship with the 20th Century Americana poet Elizabeth Bishop from 1951 to 1967.
In 1967, Soares followed Bishop back to the United States, having recovered from an ailment with extensive hospitalization. The same day she arrived in New York, 19 September 1967, Soares committed suicide by overdosing on tranquilizers.
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- http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/about.htm
- Carmen L. Oliveira, Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares, translated by Neil K. Besner, (Rutgers University Press, 2002); reviewed by Emily Nussbaum [1]
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