Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell
- ISBN-10
- 0374522766
- ISBN-13
- 9780374522766
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 299
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Authors
- Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore
Description
In choosing to present Elizabeth Bishop's life in poetry through her friendships with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, David Kalstone reminds us that what really matters in the life of a writer is the life of the imagination ... 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. --Katha Pollitt.
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Other editions
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- 2001
- 299 pages
- Paperback
- University of Michigan Press
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- 1989-11-03
- 300 pages
- Paperback
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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