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Article: Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- December 11, 1989
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FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN WRITERS
IT IS EASY to understand why the late critic David Kalstone found Elizabeth Bishop a fascinating subject. In her poetry and in her life Bishop steered clear of traveled roads. Kalstone also went his own way, determined to show how verse can be read as the revelation of a poet's personality. At a time when deconstruction had declared the death of the self, that was a quixotic enterprise.
Before his death from AIDS in 1987, at age 54, Kalstone had completed substantial drafts of all but the preface and final chapter of Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (Farrar Straus Giroux, 299 pp., ...