Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop

Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
ISBN-10
0878058729
ISBN-13
9780878058723
Category
Poetry
Pages
164
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Univ. Press of Mississippi
Author
Elizabeth Bishop

Description

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

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