I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc. with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor," Elizabeth Bishop said upon learning a friend landed a job at "The New[...]

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 ne[...]

Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. Yet what really happened in the life on one of the twentieth century's finest and most beloved American poets has eluded readers for years. In this first full biography, Brett Miller pieces together the compelling and painful s[...]

(Vocal). John Harbison blends his musical voice with the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop to form a work which gives the impression of a poet/composer collaboration rather than just a setting of text to music. Harbison has also set the work with a chamber ensemble accompaniment, which is available from th[...]

In her lifetime Elizabeth Bishop was appreciated as a writer's writer (John Ashbery once called her "the writer's writer's writer"). But since her death in 1979 her reputation has grown, and today she is recognized as a major twentieth-century poet. Critics and biographers now habitually praise Bish[...]

This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They oft[...]

"A sure-handed, beautifully constructed book that captures the color of Elizabeth Bishop's life--melancholy and ecstatic, anchored by whiskey and words, by turns New England grim and toucan-vibrant--on the page. Megan Marshall performs her own miracle: here is how poetry gets written." --Stacy Schif[...]

This book interweaves more than 120 interviews with relatives, friends, colleagues, and students of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), one of America's finest poets. Among the interviewees are numerous intellectual and artistic figures, including John Ashbery, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Giroux, Clement Gr[...]

Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century--a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse. Yet the do[...]