The Complete Poems, 1927–1979
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The Complete Poems, 1927–1979
Elizabeth Bishop
Poetry
James Mustich
Jul 29, 2018
Elizabeth Bishop served as Poet Laureate of the United States, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and taught at Harvard and MIT. Yet upon her death in 1979, her achievement was still little known outside of literary circles. She produced a concentrated body of verse over the course of her long career, and all of it is collected in this volume. While it’s rather slim as collected works go, it is rich with unassuming splendor. Bishop’s poetry revels in place, and single stanzas can conjure entire geographies. She lived in Brazil for fifteen years (she also translated several volumes of Portuguese literature), and in many of her poems the South American landscape comes into view, as does the Nova Scotian landscape of her early childhood. Her depictions of the world around her are unadorned and exact, alert to mundane and local facts—fish scales, the oil-soaked surfaces of a filling station, a moose in the middle of a road—in a way which suggests that even the smallest realities are infinitely bigger than one might guess.
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Michael Fergus McGrath
Mar 1, 2019
Wow not included? I missed that and for me she is essential, not "lost".
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