The complete poems - Hardcover
Translated poems of 2 Brazilian poets, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, and original poems comprise 3 decades of the author's work
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Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman poet." In 1977, two years before her death she wrote, "art is art and to separate writings, paintings, musical compositions, etc., into two sexes is to emphasize values in them that are not art." She also deeply distrusted the dominant mode of modern poetry, one practiced with such detached passion by her friend Robert Lowell, the confessional.
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Bishop was unforgiving of fashion and limited ways of seeing and feeling, but cast an even more trenchant eye on her own work. One wishes this volume were thicker, though the perfections within mark the rightness of her approach. The poems are sublimely controlled, fraught with word play, fierce moral vision (see her caustic ballad on Ezra Pound, "Visits to St. Elizabeths"), and reticence. From the surreal sorrow of the early "Man-Moth" (leaping off from a typo she had come across for "mammoth"), about a lonely monster who rarely emerges from "the pale subways of cement he calls his home," to the beauty of her villanelle "One Art" (with its repeated "the art of losing isn't hard to master"), the poet wittily explores distance and desolation, separation and sorrow.
Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911. She lived for many years in Brazil with her partner, Lota de Macedo Soares. On Soares? death by suicide, she began to spend more time in the US and became poet-in-residence at Harvard University. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize (1956). She died in 1979.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0701116080
- ISBN 13 9780701116088
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. British edition, undated, however 1970. Presumed first printing. With original clipped jacket. Index of titles to back. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, a couple of large (approx. 3cms) tears, a few small marks, patchy browning, creasing/rubbing to edges, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, minor foxing, a little pushing/bumping to corners, a little dustiness/browning/minor foxing to reverse (white side), little creasing/rubbing/few small marks/browning to front/back inner flaps and is in only good condition. Boards are only good with numerous rubbing to edges, few small marks, very minor pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small bump to edges and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages slightly tanned. Top edge of pages have the odd small mark/(quite) heavy foxing. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted. Seller Inventory # 008984
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