Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (Loa #180) - (Library of America) by Robert Giroux & Lloyd Schwartz (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This collection of one of Americas great poets contains all the poetry that Bishop published in her lifetime, an extensive selection of unpublished poems and drafts, and all her published poetic translations as well as her essential published prose.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. <p/>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 <i>North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel</i>, and <i>Geography III</i>. In addition it contains an extensive selection of unpublished poems and drafts of poems (several not previously collected), as well as all her published poetic translations, ranging from a chorus from Aristophanes' <i>The Birds</i> to versions of Brazilian sambas. <p/><i>Poems, Prose, and Letters</i> 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. <p/><b>LIBRARY OF AMERICA</b> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Robert Giroux</b>, volume co-editor, was chairman of the editorial board of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Elizabeth Bishop's longtime editor. He edited her <i>Collected Prose</i> (1984) and <i>One Art</i> (1994), her selected letters. <p/><b>Lloyd Schwartz</b>, co-editor, is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, classical music editor of <i>The Boston Phoenix</i>, and a regular reviewer for NPR's <i>Fresh Air</i>. In 1994 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His most recent poetry collection is <i>Cairo Traffic</i>.
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