It's not always the case that the life of an artist is as interesting as her work, but it's certainly true of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. In the mid-1950s, she left behind her cosmopolitan life in New York to take a cruise and ended up in Brazil, where she fell in love with the noted female architect and activist Lota de Macedo Soares. Over the next 15 years, Bishop won the Pulitzer Prize, lived through an attempted military coup, and continually struggled with alcoholism. Obviously, there was more than enough drama in her life to make for an engaging one-woman show; but that description doesn't apply to Marta Góes's A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, now at Primary Stages.

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