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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.
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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
Book Description 1st edition; 1st impression. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 216 p. ; 23 cm. Contents: North & South ; A cold spring; Questions of travel ; Translations from the Portuguese; New and uncollected work. Subjects: Poetry; Florida; United States of America; Thunder and Lightening; Translations; Travel. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 398375
Book Description 1st edition; 1st impression. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 216 p. ; 23 cm. Contents: North & South ; A cold spring; Questions of travel ; Translations from the Portuguese; New and uncollected work. Subjects: Poetry; Florida; United States of America; Thunder and Lightening; Translations; Travel. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 398375