Synopses & Reviews
This book brings together the work of pioneering scholars in thefield- critics who are exploring the psychosexual tensions within Bishop's visionand the uncanny way her poetics of dislocation challenges our assumptions aboutplacement and orientation. These scholars argue that Bishop's sense of differenceas an orphan, a woman artist, and a lesbian plays a significant role in thequestioning of aesthetic, ethical, and sexual boundaries that is so much a part ofher poetic practice. Drawing on central issues of Bishop's personal life, the bookconsiders the ways in which the poet's art confronts the female body, the sexualpolitics of literary tradition, and the pleasures and perils of languageitself.