| Poems Contributor(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374532362 ISBN-13: 9780374532369 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2010038535 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (1.20 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike. Bishop's poems combine humor and sadness, pain and acceptance, and observe nature and lives in perfect miniaturist close-up. The themes central to her poetry are geography and landscape--from New England, where she grew up, to Brazil and Florida, where she later lived--human connection with the natural world, questions of knowledge and perception, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos. This new edition offers readers the opportunity to take in, entire, one of the great careers in twentiethcentury poetry. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bishop, Elizabeth: - The modern American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) received the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for her collection Poems: North & South. A Cold Spring, the National Book Award for The Complete Poems (1969), the National Book Critics' Circle Award in 1976, and many other distinctions and accolades for her work. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. She traveled widely as an adult, living for years in France and then Brazil, before returning to the United States. |