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Size: 9x6x1; NOT an ex library book. 306 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears.

Size: 9x6x1; NOT an ex library book. 306 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears.

xix, 306 pgs.

xix, 306 pgs.

New York. 1992. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1992. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Price-Clipped Dustjacket. 0231076622. 306 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration: Watercolor by Elizabeth Bishop (1965? ). keywords: Poetry Literary Criticism Biography America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-ELIZABETH BISHOP: A BIOGRAPHY OF A POETRY is a fascinating account of one of the most influential and beloved poets of the past fifty years. Writing a clean, spare poetry of elegance, lucidity and great charm, Bishop appears to offer small insight into her private life, wryly remarking that confessional poets ‘overdo the morbidity. ' Yet, telling much in Bishop's own words, Lorrie Goldensohn's study charts the complex evolution of the poetry toward autobiographical disclosure. Through poetry and prose, and through the witty, moving, and often richly comic world of Bishop's correspondence, Goldensohn authoritatively reads the words to reveal the person and poet within them. Examining unpublished and unfinished work, Goldensohn takes a new and fresh look at the radical breaks, as well as the consistencies, in the process leading Bishop to the culminating triumph of her late poetry. In this candid discussion, Bishop's lesbianism and alcoholism emerge as significant topics. Goldensohn tracks Bishop's developing sense of her female place in the world and explores her conflicted relations to Nova Scotia, New England, and subtropical Brazil. While doing research for this book, Goldensohn went to Brazil, where she found a cache of Bishop's papers, including new diaries, unpublished poetry, early drafts of published work and the full text of the untitled poem beginning ‘It is marvellous to wake up together. ' The newly discovered poem swerves from what had been Bishop's usually dismissive treatment of love. Its brilliant eroticism provides Goldensohn with a focal point for describing the evolution of love, sex, and gender as subjects in Bishop's poetry. In contrary but crucial ways, the book demonstrates further how Bishop's lifelong friendships with the poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, with their delicate pattern of reciprocal challenge, illuminated aesthetic and moral choice for all three poets. inventory #16794.

Size: 104x16x152; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Size: 104x16x152; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!