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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979

by Elizabeth Bishop

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Staff Pick

Bishop is known for her detailed and precise observations and her subtle yet piercing insights into the world of memory and emotions. Anyone interested in contemporary poetry shouldn't fail to check her out.
Recommended by the Humanities Team, Powell's City of Books

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Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. The Complete Poems includes the books North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia.

Review:

"With their wit, honesty, abundance, imaginative breadth, and prosodic grace...thirty or forty of the poems in this book seem as valuable as any written in English since the last war." Christopher Reid, The Sunday Times (London)

Review:

"Bishop was not just a good poet but a great one. She accomplished a magical illumination of the ordinary, forcing us to examine our surroundings with the freshness of a friendly alien." David Lehman, Newsweek

Review:

"Bishop was one of the finest poets this country produced in [the twentieth] century; we are lucky to have all her work collected now in one volume." Jane Howard, Mademoiselle

Synopsis:

< div> Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. < i> The Complete Poems< /i> includes the books < i> North & amp; South< /i> , < i> A Cold Spring< /i> , < i> Questions of Travel< /i> , and < i> Geography III< /i> , as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia.< br> < /div>
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The modern American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Nation Book Critics' Circle Award, and many other distinctions and accolades for her work.
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ISBN:
9780374518172
Author:
Bishop, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
American
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Single Author *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:
United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)
Subject:
Single Author / American
Copyright:
1984
Edition Description:
Trade Paperback
Series Volume:
93-1
Publication Date:
19840401
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
9.24x6.03x.80 in. .93 lbs.
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Product details 272 pages Farrar Straus Giroux - English 9780374518172 Reviews:
"Staff Pick" by ,

Bishop is known for her detailed and precise observations and her subtle yet piercing insights into the world of memory and emotions. Anyone interested in contemporary poetry shouldn't fail to check her out.

by the Humanities Team
"Review" by , "With their wit, honesty, abundance, imaginative breadth, and prosodic grace...thirty or forty of the poems in this book seem as valuable as any written in English since the last war."
"Review" by , "Bishop was not just a good poet but a great one. She accomplished a magical illumination of the ordinary, forcing us to examine our surroundings with the freshness of a friendly alien."
"Review" by , "Bishop was one of the finest poets this country produced in [the twentieth] century; we are lucky to have all her work collected now in one volume."
"Synopsis" by , < div> Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. < i> The Complete Poems< /i> includes the books < i> North & amp; South< /i> , < i> A Cold Spring< /i> , < i> Questions of Travel< /i> , and < i> Geography III< /i> , as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia.< br> < /div>
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