Product Description: Today established as one of the twentieth century’s most important poets, Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was also a gifted artist and collector of art and artifacts, many of which were collected from her years in Brazil. Objects and Apparitions explores for the first time Bishop’s art: her delicate, miniaturist watercolors and gouaches of domestic vignettes; her tenderly fabricated, Cornell-esque constructions; and several works of art from her own collection, including family portraits and a bird cage modeled on a medieval cathedral...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

A single-volume collection of definitive pieces collects all of the esteemed twentieth-century writer's works of poetry, including the full texts of such publications as North & South, A Cold Spring, and Questions of Travel, in an anthology that also features her unpublished drafts, literary essays, and travel writings. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: In Cairo Traffic, his third book of poems, Lloyd Schwartz asks the Sphinx to explain the riddle "about, you know, / Time and Power and Families-the one you think you / have the answer to. Tell me your answer! / No . . . don't." The search for answers takes the poet to some surprising, often phantasmagoric places, and back again to the self, to dreams, to home, and even to the nursing home where his mother-sphinxlike herself-becomes the person asking the dark questions and providing some unexpected answers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Includes 'Reports of My Death,' 'In the Mist,' 'Crossing the Rockies,' 'Vermeers,' and other poems

Product Description: Bishop, Elizabeth, -- 1911-1979. -- North & South.

Poems impressively portray a variety of characters and their lives in their own words