Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are featured prominently to highlight the shifting articulation of their activist identities in relation to social and economic justice. Becoming Activist explores critical literacy pedagogy beyond the confines of formal education. While it has been historically theorized within English classrooms, much existing research points to the limitations of conducting critical literacy in schools. In search of a space where critical literacy can be more fully realized, this book positions urban youth organizing as an alternative context for powerful community-based learning. A valuable read for educators, researchers, and young organizers, Becoming Activist offers insight into conducting literacy work to promote positive youth and community development. Ultimately, the idea of becoming is key to understanding and supporting youth activists as they grow to exercise their political power for positive social change.

Product Description: A rare glimpse at the artistic development of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated poetsI 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 Yorker in the early 1950s...read more

Product Description: Elizabeth Bishop's prose is not nearly as well known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories are often on the borderline of memoir, and vice versa...read more

Product Description: The history of this anthology is the story of a shared passion for bringing together life and literature. Featuring the collaboration of important American poets such as WS Merwin, Mark Strand, James Merrill and Richard Wilbur is solid proof of the great moments that occurred in Brazilian poetry during the second half of the twentieth century...read more

A collection of previously unpublished drafts and partial works by Elizabeth Bishop includes pieces that were started in her early adulthood about her love for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique, dream fragments from the 1940s, and poems about her Canadian childhood. Reprint.

Presents, alongside a facsimile of the notebook page from which they are drawn, poems Elizabeth 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.

A selection of poems and letters sent from May Swenson to Elizabeth Bishop are accompanied by an essay.

Considered the successor to Robert Frost, Bishop's poems are praised for their clarity, wittily observed details, and dark, mysterious revelations. Read by the author.

Product Description: When the distinguished art critic Meyer Schapiro said that Elizabeth Bishop "writes poems with a painter's eye," Bishop was "very flattered: I'd love to be a painter." The fact is―though not many knew it―she painted throughout her life, as this handsome book, reproducing in full color forty of her works, demonstrates...read more

Product Description: A 25th anniversary edition of a book cited by Modern Language Journal as "notable for the original and interesting choice of poems and for the accuracy and poetic quality of the translations." Work by 14 Brazilian poets, including the late João Cabral de Melo Neto, is presented en face with translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Ashley Brown, Jane Cooper, Richard Eberhart, Barbara Howes, June Jordan, Galway Kinnell, Jean Longland, James Merrill, W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: To accomplish your course goals, use this study guide to enhance your understanding of the text content and to be better prepared for quizzes and tests. This convenient manual helps you assimilate and master the information encountered in the text through the use of practice exercises and applications, comprehensive review tools, and additional helpful resources...read more

A collection of 500 letters written over a 50-year period offers an intimate look at the poet's life

Product Description: In 1952, soon after her arrival in Brazil, Elizabeth Bishop asked her new Brazilian friends which of their country's books she should read. They recommended Minha Vida de Menina - a diary kept by a young girl who lived in a mining town at the end of the nineteenth century...read more

A long-anticipated collection of more than five hundred letters by a major American poet offers a wide range of Bishop's correspondence with fellow poets, such as Robert Lowell, and with other friends, creating a rich picture of her fascinating life.

Poems, in both English translation and the original Spanish, deal with fate, nature, language, intimacy, love, friendship, and the senses.