Book Details
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.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Bishop, Elizabeth
- ISBN13 9780701178024
- ISBN10 0701178027
- Pages 287
- Published 2010
- Language English
The Complete Poems
- Author Elizabeth Bishop
- Publisher CHATTO & W.
- ISBN 9780701178024
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