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1. The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(1984-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Bishop was unforgiving of fashion and limited ways of seeing andfeeling, but cast an even more trenchant eye on her own work. Onewishes this volume were thicker, though the perfections within markthe rightness of her approach. The poems are sublimely controlled,fraught with word play, fierce moral vision (see her caustic ballad onEzra Pound, "Visits to St. Elizabeths"), and reticence.From the surreal sorrow of the early "Man-Moth" (leaping offfrom a typo she had come across for "mammoth"), about alonely monster who rarely emerges from "the pale subways ofcement he calls his home," to the beauty of her villanelle"One Art" (with its repeated "the art of losing isn'thard to master"), the poet wittily explores distance anddesolation, separation and sorrow. Customer Reviews (25)
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Rediscovering Elizabeth Bishop
I lost this 2 days after receiving it
the portrait of the artist as a conscientious wordsmith
Jan 2008 |
2. The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Paperback: 278
Pages
(1984-11-01)
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Brilliant prose from a brilliant poet
A delicate collection.
The Collected Prose |
3. Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters (Library of America) by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Hardcover: 975
Pages
(2008-02-14)
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A Beautiful Book, Highly Recommended
Where are the rest of Bishop's letters?
Elizabeth Bishop
LONGING FOR THE PAST WISHING FOR THE FUTURE
The absolute definitive compilation of Elizabeth Bishop's works |
4. Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares by Carmen Oliveira | |
Paperback: 218
Pages
(2003-08-15)
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Plesasurable reading
At last, in English! As an American living in Brazil for the past 20 years, I found it a fascinating account of how Lota and her country provided a haven for Bishop, an orphan prone to writer's block and alcoholism.Rare and Commonplace Flowers, read in addition to Bishop's letters, opens a whole new window on her writing. Ever since I read the original in Portuguese, in 1995, I have been convinced that it merits the attention of non-Portuguese speakers.Thanks to the excellent translation of Neil Besner, you've got it! ... Read more |
5. One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Paperback: 668
Pages
(1995-09-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Bishopoften hid her sadness behind charm, but she could also beastonishingly frank. In addition to the personal revelations, thereare discussions of poems' origins. "Quite a few lines of 'At theFishhouses' came to me in a dream," she tells U. T. and JosephSummers. "And the scene--which was real enough, I'd recently beenthere--but the old man and the conversation, etc., were all in a laterdream." One caveat: Robert Giroux has kept commentary and notesto a minimum, so it's worth reading his introduction for deepbackground before you begin. Customer Reviews (3)
This collection changed my life
I Fell In Love With Elizabeth Bishop All Over Again!
Revelations of the Artist |
6. God and Elizabeth Bishop:Meditations on Religion and Poetry by Cheryl Walker | |
Hardcover: 176
Pages
(2005-07-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description In God and "The Bishop" Cheryl Walker takes the bold step of looking at the work of Elizabeth Bishop as though it might have something fresh to say about religion and poetry. Going wholly against the tide of recent academic practice, especially as applied to Bishop, she delights in presenting herself as an engaged Christian who nevertheless believes that a skeptical modern poet might feed our spiritual hungers. This is a book that reminds us of the rich tradition of religious poetry written in English, at the same time taking delicious detours into realms of humor, social responsibility, and mysticism. Customer Reviews (1)
A must-read! |
7. Geography III: Poems (FSG Classics) by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(2008-03-18)
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Editorial Review Product Description Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained Â"One Art,Â" Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, Â"The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds Â'grand,' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech.Â" Customer Reviews (2)
Where you are
Very god variety of quality poems. A fantastic author! |
8. Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell | |
Paperback: 928
Pages
(2010-03-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that “you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.” The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling “picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,” and she once begged him, “Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I’ve been re-reading Emerson) for several days.” Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell’s death in 1977. The substantial, revealing—and often very funny—interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America’s most beloved and influential poets. Customer Reviews (4)
A couple like the Clintons
bedtime reading
words in air
Love of Poetry |
9. Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1978)
Asin: B003L2E622 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Rediscovering Elizabeth Bishop
I lost this 2 days after receiving it
the portrait of the artist as a conscientious wordsmith
Jan 2008 |
10. Deep Skin: Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art by Peggy Samuels | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2010-03-18)
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11. Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier | |
Paperback: 602
Pages
(1995-09-01)
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12. Poems by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2011-02-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America’s greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike. Bishop’s poems combine humor and sadness, pain and acceptance, and observe nature and lives in perfect miniaturist close-up. The themes central to her poetry are geography and landscape—from New England, where she grew up, to Brazil and Florida, where she later lived—human connection with the natural world, questions of knowledge and perception, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos. This new edition—edited by Saskia Hamilton—offers readers the opportunity to take in, entire, one of the great careers in twentiethcentury poetry. |
13. Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Hardcover: 496
Pages
(2011-02-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description A rare glimpse at the artistic development of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated poets |
14. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Paperback: 392
Pages
(2007-03-06)
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Editorial Review Product Description From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies. This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved Bishop to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions. Customer Reviews (6)
A Reading Of"(Florida Revisited)?"
More interesting than early reviews indicated
Hidden treasures of a great artist
Gems from among the leavings
Please publish Collected Poems in hardcover |
15. Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender (Feminist Issues : Practice, Politics, Theory) by Marilyn May Lombardi | |
Hardcover: 264
Pages
(1993-09-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book brings together the work of pioneering scholars in the field- critics who are exploring the psychosexual tensions within Bishop's vision and the uncanny way her poetics of dislocation challenges our assumptions about placement and orientation. These scholars argue that Bishop's "sense of difference" as an orphan, a woman artist, and a lesbian plays a significant role in the questioning of aesthetic, ethical, and sexual boundaries that is so much a part of her poetic practice. Drawing on central issues of Bishop's personal life, the book considers the ways in which the poet's art confronts the female body, the sexual politics of literary tradition, and the pleasures and perils of language itself. |
16. The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics (Ad Feminam) by MarilynMay Lombardi | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(1995-02-20)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this original contribution to Elizabeth Bishop studies, Marilyn May Lombardi uses previously unpublished materials (letters, diaries, notebooks, and unfinished poems) to shed new light on the poet’s published work. She explores the ways Bishop’s lesbianism, alcoholism, allergic illnesses, and fear of mental instability affected her poetrythe ways she translated her bodily experiences into poetic form. A cornerstone of The Body and the Song is the poet’s thirty-year correspondence with her physician, Dr. Anny Baumann, who was both friend and surrogate mother to Bishop. The letters reveal Bishop’s struggles to understand the relation between her physical and creative drives. "Dr. Anny" also helped Bishop unravel the connections in her life between psychosomatic illness and early maternal deprivationher mother was declared incurably insane and institutionalized in 1916, when Bishop was five years old. Effectively an orphan, she spent the rest of her childhood with relatives. In addition to these letters, Lombardi uses Bishop’s unpublished notebooks to demonstrate the poet’s resolve to "face the facts"to confront her own emotional, intellectual, and physical frailtiesand translate them into poetry that is clear-eyed and economical in its form. Lombardi argues that in her subtle way, Bishop explores the same issues that preoccupy the current generation of women writers. A deeply private artist, Bishop never directly refers to her homosexuality in her published work, but the metaphors she draws from her carnal desires and aversions confront stifling cultural prescriptions for personal and erotic expression. In choosing restraint over confession, Bishop parted company with her friend Robert Lowell, but Lombardi shows that her reticence becomes a powerful artistic strategy resulting in poetry remarkable for its hermeneutic potential. Informed by recent gender criticism, Lombardi’s lucid argument advances our understanding of the ways the material circumstances of life can be transformed into art. |
17. The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon by Elizabeth Bishop | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1968)
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18. Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Travel by Kim Fortuny | |
Hardcover: 136
Pages
(2003-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description Fortuny maintains that there is practical merit in paying close attention to the linguistic complexities of Bishop's poems. The textures of poems concerned with foreign travel—poems such as "Questions of Travel," "Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance," "Crusoe in England," and "Santarém"—reveal a consciousness that is fundamentally social, in spite of the writer's reputation for Modernist and ahistorical reserve. Consequently, the heart of this study is a series of close readings of these poems, in which Fortuny teases out the nuances of Bishop's relationship to the world in which she lived and traveled, examining her "apolitical" poems through a political lens and encountering her poetic style as politically engaged itself. Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Travel will appeal to Bishop scholars, literary scholars, and those with an interest in Modernist poetry. |
19. Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop by Anne Stevenson | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(2006-08-09)
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20. Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery by Bonnie Costello | |
Paperback: 280
Pages
(1993-03-15)
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