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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragmentsby Elizabeth Bishop
Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"Students eagerly wanting to buy 'the new book by Elizabeth Bishop' should be told to go back and buy the old one, where the poet represents herself as she wished to be known....In the long run, these newly published materials will be relegated to what Robert Lowell called 'the back stacks,' and this imperfect volume will be forgotten, except by scholars. The real poems will outlast these, their maimed and stunted siblings." Helen Vendler, The New Republic (read the entire New Republic review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allen Poe and the Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies.
This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions. Review:"This book is as much Alice Quinn's as Elizabeth Bishop's. The New Yorker poetry editor spent countless hours with the 3,500 pages of Bishop (1911–1979) material housed in the Vassar College library, and particularly with two notebooks that contain drafts from the period 1936–1948, which, Quinn says in an introduction, furnished the 'kernel' of the book. None of the material (aside from 'One Art,' of which 16 drafts are included as an example of Bishop's exacting process) was marked by Bishop for publication but, as Quinn notes, much of it has been quoted extensively by Bishop scholars. Quinn, who also directs the Poetry Society of America, hopes this volume 'will provide an adventure for readers who love the established canon,' and it is, indeed, a fan's book. But it also contains some terrific lines and images; a few fully realized poems that will eventually enter the Bishop canon; and a delicious look into Bishop's thinking and composition — seeing a bad Bishop poem is a revelation. There are 108 poems (seven less than the Collected), 11 prose pieces, the 'One Art,'some sketches and other visual art, drafts and 120 pages of Quinn's excellent notes. Some of the poems are fragmentary; many contain Bishop's own question marks and possible substitutions; all will be cherished by those who love her work." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"For those who love Elizabeth Bishop, there can never be enough of her writing. The arrival of this trove of unknown manuscripts is therefore a stupendous event." John Ashbery Review:"If some of this work is mostly of interest because of what it tells us about Bishop's published writing, other pieces can stand alongside anything the New Yorker got its hands on back in the 1950s or '60s." David Orr, The New York Times Book Review Review:"Thanks to this new collection, Bishop will have the recognition she deserves, while her readers will gain a refreshed feeling for the beguiling, and often painful, tensions behind her genius." Boston Globe Review:"It is Quinn's own artful writing that brings to life the generous footnotes....With their finespun, often fascinating tangents, they weave together whole strands of Bishop's life...connecting them to the particular poem at hand." San Francisco Chronicle Review:"Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box is cause for exultation, an opportunity to witness the poet at work and — equally important — at play." Newsday Review:"The book...offers a chance to understand the dreadful thoroughness of the true writer in a more general sense: Bishop's poem were threads...by which she pulled herself like a swimmer through rough seas." Los Angeles Times Review:"Readers new to Bishop should immerse themselves in her Collected Poems first. For the longtime reader, however, it is fascinating to discover the origins of well-known poems in these long-buried notebook entries." South Florida Sun-Sentinel Synopsis:This revelatory and moving selection brings readers into the poet's laboratory, showing the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime, and revealing the kind of artistic resolution she exercised. About the AuthorElizabeth Bishop (1911–79) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Alice Quinn is poetry editor of The New Yorker and the director of the Poetry Society of America. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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