Books written by Elizabeth Bishop

  • Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
    Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

    This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved Bishop to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime.

  • Complete Poems
    Complete Poems

    A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.

  • The Collected Prose
    The Collected Prose

    The quality of Elizabeth Bishop's prose is as distinctive and personal as that of her poems. This rich collection, compiled by her editor, Robert Giroux, is arranged in two parts, fiction and nonfiction.

  • Prose
    Prose

    Presents a collection of memoirs, travel and literary essays, book reviews, tributes, correspondence with Anne Stevenson, and the original draft of "Brazil."

  • Floating World
    Floating World

    Poetic excursions and aesthetic exercises that demonstrate the power of the word.

  • ONE ART, Three Songs for Soprano: Three Songs on Elizabeth Bishop

    ONE ART, Three Songs for Soprano: Three Songs on Elizabeth Bishop

  • The Complete Poems, 19271979
    The Complete Poems, 19271979

    A definitive edition of the poet's works that includes fifty previously unpublished or uncollected poems and translations, in addition to the full texts of the award-winning collections "North & South," "A Cold Spring," "Questions of Travel ...

  • And Then I Heard Them Singing
    And Then I Heard Them Singing

    For poets, the culture of every day life involves engagement and interaction implicit in her ongoing conversation.

  • The Sleeping Lady of Malta
    The Sleeping Lady of Malta

    Native American images predominate because they are cloaked with formidable shadows. This collection offers a credo as to why I write poetry.

  • Malvinia
    Malvinia

    The locations depicted in the text are considered in a visionary and fictional manner.Part dream, part reverie the quilt of stories supports tribal voices heard in the region of Moorish ­­­Spain.

  • Shaman Dreaming
    Shaman Dreaming

    Shaman Dreaming evokes the spirit of poetry.

  • Pavlova Awakening
    Pavlova Awakening

    Heavily influenced by traditional narratives, these story poems carry seeds of cosmic consciousness imbued with a dash of La Fontaine, Aesop and Native American Shamanism.

  • Beach Side Motel
    Beach Side Motel

    Life sketches reveal inside stories and inner lives of poets who move from place to place. Each story, each vignette invites a cosmic awareness of paradise on earth.

  • Conscious Service: Make a Difference Without Sacrificing Yourself
    Conscious Service: Make a Difference Without Sacrificing Yourself

    Conscious Service: Ten ways to reclaim your calling, move beyond burnout, and make a difference without sacrificing yourself will help service providers in all types of human service understand and move beyond burnout and compassion fatigue ...

  • The Mud Palace of Aberdeen
    The Mud Palace of Aberdeen

    Here are cogent poems that ask questions.

  • Questions of Travel

    Nineteen poems, and the story of a Nova Scotia childhood, "In the village".

  • Geography III

    Geography III

  • Collected Prose

    Presented in two sections, "Memory: Persons and Places" and "Stories," this book offers the collected prose writings of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), one of America's most celebrated and admired poets.

  • Road to Nowhwere: a Broken Promise

    Erin was happy to spend her summer working in a record store not far from her Bowman, Georgia home.

  • Wind Rushing

    A delectable award-winning study of poetry that will arouse the sleeping palette of connoisseurs.A wine-tasting array of poetry that shifts our focus to environmental causes.