Books written by Elizabeth Bishop

Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

Evelyn, John (1620–1706), British diarist F Fabiani, Mario (1912–74), mayor of Florence (1946–51) Farley, ... U.S. ambassador to Japan (1930–32) Ford, Ford Madox (1873–1939), British writer Ford, Gerald Rudolph (1913–2006), ...
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

" Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell.
Prose

To this high mountain the captain gave the name of Monte Passoal [“pertaining to Easter”], and to the land, Terra da Vera Cruz.” The mountain, in the present State of Bahia, still bears the same name. The King changed Vera Cruz to Santa ...
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

My last trip , I had lunch at the Embassy with our friend Vera ' — at the cafeteria . It was strange to eat sandwiches cafeteria style and to hear all the American voices . I felt as if I knew everyone , and didn't know a soul .
One Art: Letters

From several thousand letters, written by Bishop over fifty years—from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979—Robert Giroux, the poet's longtime friend and editor, has selected over five hundred ...
Geography III: Poems

A kite string ? — But no kite. I wanted to get as far as my proto-dream-house, my crypto-dream-house, that crooked box set up on pilings, shingled green, a sort of artichoke of a house, but greener (boiled with bicarbonate of soda?), ...
Poems

Finally, they did end: a thick White snarl, man-size, awash, rising on every wave, a sodden ghost, falling back, sodden, giving up the ghost. . . . A kite string?—But no kite.
One Art: Letters

Loren is painting a large picture of the red kite just now, I think. We have [the kite] here and intend to go flying it—on the town dump—as soon as there is the proper breeze. It is very warm. Every day we go swimming about noontime.
Poems

A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and ...
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop

Gathers twenty-five years of the poet's conversations with various interviewers, in which she discusses personal experiences, principal themes, the authors who influenced her, and other subjects
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180)

This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist.
Questions of Travel: Poems

The publication of this book is a literary event. It is Miss Bishop's first volume of verse since Poems, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955. This new collection consists of two parts.
One Art: Letters

From several thousand letters, written by Bishop over fifty years—from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979—Robert Giroux, the poet's longtime friend and editor, has selected over five hundred ...
Prose: The Centenary Edition

Although Elizabeth Bishop is perhaps better known as a masterful poet, she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as this centenary edition of her prose demonstrates.
Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell

Becoming a Poet is an indispensable study, not only for scholars and lovers of Bishop's poetry, but for anyone curious about how creative minds make art out of the unpromising materials of life ... A first-rate piece of criticism.
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence

I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.—with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor," ...
An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry

In Portuguese and English.
The Collected Prose

A compilation of fiction and nonfiction includes both previously published and hitherto unpublished stories, such as "In the Village," "The Housekeeper," and "Gwendolyn" and nonfiction works discovered among the author's papers after her ...
Prose

This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America s greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike.
Exchanging Hats: Paintings

" William Benton concludes, "They are, though." In paperback for the first time since its publication, this edition of Exchanging Hats is sure to generate a renewed appreciation for this multi-talented artist.