China and the West

Moore, Marianne. "Senhora Helena". In : Poetry ; no 94 (July 1959). [Review of The Diary of Helena Morley, translated and edited, with a preface and introduction by Elizabeth Bishop (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy).
The attitude to life revealed by the Diary, Helena's apperceptiveness, and innate accuracy, seem a double portrait ; the exactness of observation in the introduction being an extension, in manner, of Miss Bishop's verse and other writing, as when she differentiates between marbleized or painted window-frames to imitate stone, and stone ones painted to imitate grained wood ; again, in the description of rain-pipe funnels 'flaring like trumpets', or sometimes with 'tin petals or feathers down them and around the mouth… repeated in tiles set edgewise up the ridges of the roofs, dragonlike and very 'Chinese'.