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" 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.
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 .
The candid, affectionate, constrained and loving friendship of the two American poets, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, is recorded in letters written over three decades. It begins after the publication...
Words in Air is ringing reportage from two generations who saw things not as they were drawn but as they were, accepting no excuse nor offering one . . . Words in Air lays open America, which some say is only a place in the mind.