Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography (Inscribed First Edition)

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Full blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, blue endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 408 pages, with index. A collective memoir of poet Elizabeth Bishop, pieced together from reminiscences of friends, colleagues, and fellow writers. The editors, Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau, weave an oral history that illuminates Bishop’s private life, literary friendships, and enduring influence. Fountain (b. 1951) is an American literary scholar and biographer, here collaborating on one of the earliest book-length efforts to frame Bishop’s legacy. The book appeared nearly two decades after Bishop’s death and was part of the wave of renewed attention to her work in the 1990s. This copy is inscribed by co-author Gary Fountain on the title page to the prior owner and dated in the month of publication (11/1994).