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: 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 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

A young bear and her dad, both circus clowns, enjoy spending time together doing tricks and going for a bicycle ride.

Product Description: By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and postmodern interpretations to more recent feminist analysis, Victoria Harrison traces Bishop's career, dividing Bishop's work into three chronological periods of activity: her early work, her writing in Brazil, and her late retrospective verse...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of such publications as North & South, A Cold Spring, and Questions of Travel, in an anthology that also features her unpublished drafts, literary essays, and travel writings. 10,000 first printing.

A collection of previously unpublished drafts and partial works by Elizabeth Bishop includes pieces that were started in her early adulthood about her love for Elizabethan verse and surrealist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.

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

A young bear and her dad, both circus clowns, enjoy spending time together doing tricks and going for a bicycle ride.

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Product Description: Examining the poet's view of the human body and issues of embodiment, Colwell provides an accessible, close reading of Bishop's poetry. Inscrutable Houses examines Elizabeth Bishop's paradoxical relationship to the concept of embodiment as it evolves in the poems of her four published books...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

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 Grenberg, Thom Gunn, John Hollander, Mary McCarthy, James Merrill, Katha Pollitt, Ned Rorem, Lloyd Schwartz, Anne Stevenson, Rosalyn Turek, Helen Vendler, and Richard Wilber.

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

Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in the act of writing. Susan McCabe argues that Bishop counters modernist claims for an autonomous art object and an impersonal artist; Bishop's writing never represents an escape into perfected forms, but instead calls attention to the processes of language that construct identity. McCabe emphasizes how personal experience is deeply enmeshed with Bishop's poetics. Bishop's project returns to her early losses the death of her father and her mother's madness and uses them to disclose the instability of the concepts of self or place through a rhetoric of indeterminacy and uncertainty. Although Bishop has recently begun to receive the critical attention she deserves, this book uniquely brings loss to the foreground in connection with identity, gender, and the fashioning of a feminist poetics.