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Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180) (Library of America) Hardcover – February 14, 2008

by Elizabeth Bishop (Author), Robert Giroux (Editor), Lloyd Schwartz (Editor)
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James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop’s poems as “more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime” and called her “our greatest national treasure.” Robert Lowell said, “I enjoy her poems more than anybody else’s.” Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop’s work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of America’s great poets of the twentieth century.

This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Elizabeth Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes as North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III. In addition it contains an extensive selection of unpublished poems and drafts of poems (several not previously collected), as well as all her published poetic translations, ranging from a chorus from Aristophanes’ The Birds to versions of Brazilian sambas.

Poems, Prose, and Letters also brings together most of her published prose writings, including stories; reminiscences; travel writing about the places (Nova Scotia, Florida, Brazil) that so profoundly marked her poetry; and literary essays and statements, including a number of pieces published here for the first time. The book is rounded out with a selection of Bishop’s irresistibly engaging and self-revelatory letters. Of the fifty-three letters included here, written between 1933 and 1979, a considerable number are printed for the first time, and all are presented in their entirety. Their recipients include Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Anne Stevenson, May Swenson, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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    1598530178
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Starred Review. No further proof is necessary to show that Bishop—still not widely known beyond literary circles at the time of her death in 1979—has, posthumously in the last three decades, become one of America's most popular 20th-century poets, but this hefty and handsome volume from the Library of America certainly clinches the deal. Between its covers one can find most of the perfectionist author's oeuvre, more than enough to confirm Bishop as a master at revealing the complexity of simple, often painful things (I said to myself: three days/ and you'll be seven years old./ I was saying it to stop/ the sensation of falling off the round, turning world/ into cold, blue-black space./ But I felt: you are an I, you are an Elizabeth). All the poems gathered in the now-classic Collected Poems are here, as are the unpublished drafts released in 2006's controversial Edgar Allen Poe and the Jukebox. The memoir and fiction pieces of Collected Prose are also reprinted, along with a few other pieces of scattered nonfiction, as well as a generous selection of Bishop's enthralling letters. Bishop's work is deeply compassionate and necessary reading, and now almost all of it can be found in one place. (Feb)
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"Bishop was not just a good poet but a great one. She accomplished a magical illumination of the ordinary, forcing us to examine our surroundings with the freshness of a friendly alien." -David Lehman

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America; Reprint edition (February 14, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 975 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1598530178
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1598530179
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.42 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.23 x 1.28 x 8.16 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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J. Cohen
5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Book, Highly Recommended
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2009
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For my money, this book beats out Bishop's "Collected Poems" (from Farrar Straus & Giroux) or any of the other separate volumes of Bishop's writing (be it letters, prose, etc.). In this volume you not only get all of her collected and uncollected poems, but there's also a very generous selection of her letters and prose. So for all but the most hardcore Bishop fans, this one volume should satisfy most of their Bishop-reading needs. Also, as with all of Library of America's books, this volume is a very handsome edition in hardcover with a very professional binding that will last much longer than any of Bishop's cheaper, soft-cover editions. In addition, I greatly prefer this edition's typography to the above-mentioned "Collected Poems."
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WeHo book lover
5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless and brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2013
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Seeing the film, "Reaching for the Moon" about the relationship between the American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota De Macedo Soares rekindled my long-dormant interest in Bishop's oeuvre. It's a wonderful collection that bears re-reading often, or reading for the first time, if you happen not to know her work.
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Laurie T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2017
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Exactly what I needed for a lecture I am going to!
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Michelle R. Monroe
5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Bishop: The familiar and glorious revelations of previously unpublished works
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2015
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A brilliant compilation of the prose by Bishop we love, along with some fascinating unpublished pieces and other surprises.
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Lawrence Mack Hall
4.0 out of 5 stars A very good writer, and I enjoyed her prose more than her poetry.
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2020
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This is a second-hand volume in excellent condition and for a good price. Praise to the third-party seller.
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Robert Laurent
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2017
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A magnificent voice.
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Stacee Clayton
5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Bishop
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2008
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I got this book for my sister as a gift and she absolutely loves it. It is a nice compilation of Elizabeth Bishop's work put out as part of a series of great authors by the Library of America.
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Tam
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely edition
Reviewed in Canada on February 24, 2020
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Lovely edition
Not too heavy or bulky
Has thin pages which I like
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Martha C. de Vargas, doctora en letras
5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters
Reviewed in Mexico on March 31, 2017
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Like all volumes of Library of America, this one is a delight to read! The selection is very comprehensive (has all the best-known, most relevant poems, and many more) and a very interesting sample of her prose and letters to other poets and friends, like Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell.
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5.0 out of 5 stars sublime
Reviewed in France on June 17, 2017
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Elisabeth Bishop est sublime transdimentionnelle c'est comme un jour sans fin sublime Anaphora un jour sans fin sublime du rythme envoutant des mots
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Alan Tucker
5.0 out of 5 stars A delight
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2015
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The way to read any author new to you is to pick up one of the original publications, a first edition in any impression. You see the work as the author and as the original readers first saw it, an artefact of its time. The Library of America offer 'the boxed set', an anthology devoted to one person. The English equivalent would be the inter-war Nonesuch compendiums and the later Reynard Library The Library of America editions have the same advantages of fine paper, good print and sturdy bindings. The Elizabeth Bishop volume is a perfect example of the benefits of this approach. Bishop is one of the rare poets who change sensibility. She did it very quietly and efficiently, bringing the voice of an intelligent woman out of America. Her poems aim at perfection of craftsmanship: for British readers a Larkin rather than a Hughes. She is amusing and witty and thoughtful and touching. Her letters are a delight. The stories are so-so. The book would make a perfect gift for a poetry reader who hasn't previously explored her work but perhaps will have come across The Sandpiper – one of her handful of masterpieces, 'a perfect lyric' as Yeats might (rather impatiently) call it. She would share his impatience. A superb writer; an excellent edition.
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Carol
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite poets and I'm so glad to have everything in ...
Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2014
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One of my favourite poets and I'm so glad to have everything in one place. Also enjoyed her Letters to the New Yorker.
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