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Mar.01.2013 Elizabeth Bishop: Poet 'And' Painter Elizabeth Bishop, the prominent 'America' poet has deep, earthy roots in Canada. She spent many obvious formative years in Nova Scotia, less than a hour drive from Halifax. She was raised (in part) by grandparents in Great Village, which I visited a couple of summers ago. I have some...	Dec.06.2012 Washington Post reviews WITH ROBERT LOWELL AND HIS CIRCLE The Washington Post just gave With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz and Others a lengthy review! It's available online here. Thank you! (With many more exclamation points, as the Washington Post reviewer notes....) The book launch...
Dec.16.2011 The Sugar Zone Is Bittersweet It is difficult to resist the temptation to compare, if not the style of poems, then simply the location of Mary Mackey's Sugar Zone to Elizabeth Bishop's series, Questions of Travel, written during her fifteen years in Brazil. From Bishop's The Riverman: They gave me a shell of cachaca/and...	Oct.18.2011 Using Influences: David Vann, Elizabeth Bishop and Marilynne Robinson If ever there was a story that wears its influences on its sleeve, David Vann's "Ketchikan" is it. The story steals its influences from two sources: largely Elizabeth Bishop's poem At The Fishhouses and to a lesser degree Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping. In various interviews...
Aug.05.2011 A 1978 Interview With Elizabeth Bishop - A Nova Scotia Gal Elizabeth Bishop, The Art of Poetry No. 27Interviewed by Elizabeth Spires The interview took place at Lewis Wharf, Boston, on the afternoon of June 28, 1978, three days before Miss Bishop and two friends were to leave for North Haven, a Maine island in Penobscot Bay where she summered. Her...	Feb.08.2011 American Poet Elizabeth Bishop Rooted In Nova Scotia In a way Elizabeth Bishop was neither fish nor fowl when I was in university. She didn't fit into "Can Lit" and seemed not to be (yet) in the canon of American literature. And she still had eight years to live when I graduated, so there was no patina of death. Still, I had a professor...
Oct.27.2009 Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art," the art of losing isn't hard to master... Villanelle This is a poem, "One Art," that I seem to have known before, _long_ before I first read it, and foolishly forgot, and then it comes back into my life and it's there again as if it had never not been there. One Art by Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn't hard to master;so many...