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  • Published: 27 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781446467206
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Poems

The Centenary Edition




The definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets.

This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where Bishop grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived - and move inexorably toward the interior, exploring questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.

This new edition, edited by Saskia Hamilton, includes Bishop's four published volumes (North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel and Geography III), as well as uncollected poems, translations and an illuminating selection of unpublished manuscript poems, reproduced in facsimile, revealing exactly how finished, or unfinished, Bishop left them. It offers readers the opportunity to enjoy the complete poems of one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century.

  • Published: 27 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781446467206
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911. She lived for many years in Brazil with her partner, Lota de Macedo Soares. On Soares' death by suicide, she began to spend more time in the US and became poet-in-residence at Harvard University. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize (1956). She died in 1979.

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Praise for Poems

When we read her, we enter the classical serenity of a new country

Robert Lowell

If ever there was a poet whose every scrap of writing should be in print, that poet must be Elizabeth Bishop

Christopher Reid

One of the greatest poets of the twentieth century

William Boyd, Guardian