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Poems

by Elizabeth Bishop

ISBN13: 9780374532369
ISBN10: 0374532362

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A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011.

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 offers readers the opportunity to take in, entire, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.

Review

“Bishop was not just a good poet but a great one. Bishop accomplished a magical illumination of the ordinary, forcing us to examine our surroundings with the freshness of a friendly alien.” David Lehman, Newsweek

About the Author

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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`	Weems , November 29, 2020 (view all comments by Weems) When so much poetry today is lousy with ‘voice,’ thick with poets too eager to make themselves the spotlight to hide their quaking knees as they fear obscurity, Bishop’s work is so refreshing: full of persona, but not busting us over the head with it. Notable exceptions remain, of course, but I love how she contains her emotive moments for maximum impact. Take the classics “One Art” and “The Armadillo,” for example, poems that use their form to show us the eventual, panicked breakage of their form. While when reading any full collection of anyone’s full body of work, you’re going to come across those you wish you hadn’t seen, and in this case maybe struggle more with the early works before she really hit her stride, but as it is always refreshing to see an already talented writer bloom more and more, this volume is definitely worth a good, slow read.
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780374532369
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 02/01/2011
Publisher:: MACMILLAN PUBLISHING SERVICES
Pages:: 368
Height:: 1.10IN
Width:: 5.90IN
Thickness:: 1.00
Number of Units:: 1
Illustration:: Yes
Author:: Elizabeth Bishop
Author:: Saskia Hamilton
Editor:: Saskia Hamilton
Author:: Elizabeth Bishop
Subject:: Single Author / American
Subject:: Poetry-A to Z

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