Elizabeth Bishop is one of America's greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike.The poems that make up Bishop's small and select body of work display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. Her poems often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where she grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived - and move inexorably towards 'the interior', exploring questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.
This new edition includes all the poems that Bishop herself saw into print and a selection of unfinished, posthumously published work. It offers readers the opportunity to enjoy the complete poems of one of the most distinguished poets of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Bishop is one of America's greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike.The poems that make up Bishop's small and select body of work display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. Her poems often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where she grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived - and move inexorably towards 'the interior', exploring questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.
This new edition includes all the poems that Bishop herself saw into print and a selection of unfinished, posthumously published work. It offers readers the opportunity to enjoy the complete poems of one of the most distinguished poets of the twentieth century.
