Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery.(Book Review)

World Literature Today;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......manuscripts and finished poems, and Baudelaire stands...gray eminence in Bishop's poems employing emblematic...Burglar of Babylon. Bishop's first book in the United Kingdom, Poems (Chatto & Windus...Emanuel Brasil. Whereas Bishop was one of the sixteen translators of the ...

Poems made in pen, ink and water

The Independent - London;  September 14, 1997 ;     681 words ......unimaginable phrase . . .?" A Bishop poem feels exactly as well...landscapes are all-action events. Bishop also painted, declaring herself...extraordinary trajectories of her poems, their momentum and swerves...is what they illustrate of Bishop's poetics that makes them...with Porthole you can see ...

Mirrored lives: Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill.(Critical essay)

Twentieth Century Literature;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......into each other.... --Elizabeth Bishop (Poems 177) James Merrill admired the...seventeenth-century English poetry. Poems such as Bishop's The Weed and Merrill's Hourglass...as transvestite and anandrous (Bishop, Poems 200) imply unconventional sexual...

Moore, Bishop, and Oliver: thinking back, re-seeking the sea. (poets...

Twentieth Century Literature;  September 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Several poems by Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Mary Oliver...associated for Bishop with Marianne Moore. In the poems by Moore, Bishop, and Oliver that...of Moore's and Bishop's seas. One could think of these poems as representing...

Bishop showed reverence for word Selections from bishop's poetry published...

The Boston Globe;  December 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ......with boxes of the bishop's poems that she had typed...I never met the bishop and until I got the job of editing the poems, I had no idea he...while the finished poems are polished, he...secretary that the bishop labored over the...

Elizabeth Bishop and revision: a spiritual act. (revision of poems)

The American Poetry Review;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......verisimilitude mattered more. How did Bishop revise her poems? In reading through Bishop's drafts, I've begun to see...that she does in all of her poems), a move from the poem being...list of ingredients - it is Bishop getting her raw material out...

Remembering Bishop, Bishop remembering.(Elizabeth Bishop )(Critical essay)

Twentieth Century Literature;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......revise, revise, revise. --Bishop ( North Haven, Poems 188) On 1 March 1978 Elizabeth...remembering--we see it in Bishop's choice of poems and her commentary. More to...described as stammering elocution (Bishop, Poems 5), it is often flat and breathless...

"In the Bodies of Words": The Swenson-Bishop Conversation

Parnassus : Poetry in Review;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......own, than Moore and Bishop combined. These are the Swenson poems critics have in mind...last of Swenson's poems about Bishop, "Her Early Work...zoo poem about zoo poems, and in particular...1933) zoo poem of Bishop's, "A Word With You...

Heterotropic Desire in Elizabeth Bishop's "Pink Dog"

The Arizona Quarterly;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......in "Questions of Travel" (Poems 94). Bishop, then, both joined the conversation...be inside / or far away" (Poems 25). An artist-prince herself, Bishop seemed to slip effortlessly...illegible, as the reader wishes (Poems 192). Bishop was deeply attracted to...

THE POET'S LAB DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS REVEAL ELIZABETH BISHOP'S ARTISTRY

The Boston Globe;  April 16, 2006 ;     694 words ......III," collected nine poems. In several of these previously uncollected poems, Bishop broaches difficult subjects. In poems like "Key West" and...between two women. Such poems return us to Bishop's great "Collected Poems" with a renewed sense...

Collecting Elizabeth Bishop.(Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe and the...

Twentieth Century Literature;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe...Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments...provides us with some poems certain to enter the Bishop canon but no less...Bishop. In fact, Bishop not only saved all of the unfinished poems and drafts that...

A "dangerous game of change": images of desire in the love poems of May...

Twentieth Century Literature;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Schulman 10), an overwhelming number of Swenson's love poems employ blatantly heterosexual or stereotypically gendered...celebratory, spirited writing. As the brief biography in The Love Poems of May Swenson succinctly asserts, Swenson's poems are love letters to the world, for she loved life and ...

Bishop poetry recordings resonate more than ever

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  September 15, 2008 ;     605 words ......2007; CD, $7. "Jim Bishop Reads," a recording of 23 poems made in 2006 by University...English instructor Jim Bishop, revises a previous...point. Most of the poems on this CD are from Bishop's book "Mother Tongue...Tongue" poem. "Jim Bishop Reads," like its...Burt Hatlen: New ...

Bishop, John Peale

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;      86 words ...Bishop, John Peale (1892–1944), West...author who lived on Cape Cod, whose poems are collected in Green Fruit (1917...Act of Darkness (1935) is a novel. Bishop is said to be the prototype of Tom D'Invill...Collected Essays and his Collected Poems were published in 1948. His correspondence...

Poetry that makes a point John Gross considers two anthologies in which...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ......poems as Shakespeare, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath more poems than Milton or Coleridge. There are scores of poems by minor contemporaries, but nothing by Pope. The result has a somewhat lowering effect. Few of the recent poems are less than respectable; too many of them are drab. ...