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This poem, placed
in the “Elsewhere” section of Questions of Travel, is perhaps one of the
most direct links Bishop makes between Nova Scotia and Brazil. Great Village
got its first filling station in the 1930s. Indeed, there were two by 1946
(Esso and Texaco), when she returned to visit after a sixteen-year hiatus. The
trigger for this poem, however, was a filling station in Brazil. Both the
stations in Great Village were operated by families, including Bishop’s (her
Uncle Arthur owned the Texaco). Clearly, the Brazilian version, which she would
have seen in the 1950s, took her back to the village’s own versions, where “Somebody
loves us all.”
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