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The Complete Poems 1927-1979

Elizabeth Bishop

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Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman poet." In 1977, two years before her death she wrote, "art is art and to separate writings, paintings, musical compositions, etc., into two sexes is to emphasize values in them that are not art." She also deeply distrusted the dominant mode of modern poetry, one practiced with such detached passion by her friend Robert Lowell, the confessional. Bishop was unforgiving of fashion and limited ways of seeing and feeling, but cast an even more trenchant eye on her own work. One wishes this volume were thicker, though the perfections within mark the rightness of her approach. The poems are sublimely controlled, fraught with word play, fierce moral vision , and reticence. From the surreal sorrow of the early "Man-Moth" , about a lonely monster who rarely emerges from "the pale subways of cement he calls his home," to the beauty of her villanelle "One Art" , the poet wittily explores distance and desolation, separation and sorrow.

Language: English

Pages: 287

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: May 06, 1984

ISBN: 0374518173

ISBN 13: 9780374518172

The Complete Poems 1927-1979

Elizabeth Bishop

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman poet." In 1977, two years before her death she wrote, "art is art and to separate writings, paintings, musical compositions, etc., into two sexes is to emphasize values in them that are not art." She also deeply distrusted the dominant mode of modern poetry, one practiced with such detached passion by her friend Robert Lowell, the confessional. Bishop was unforgiving of fashion and limited ways of seeing and feeling, but cast an even more trenchant eye on her own work. One wishes this volume were thicker, though the perfections within mark the rightness of her approach. The poems are sublimely controlled, fraught with word play, fierce moral vision , and reticence. From the surreal sorrow of the early "Man-Moth" , about a lonely monster who rarely emerges from "the pale subways of cement he calls his home," to the beauty of her villanelle "One Art" , the poet wittily explores distance and desolation, separation and sorrow.

Language: English

Pages: 287

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Release: May 06, 1984

ISBN: 0374518173

ISBN 13: 9780374518172

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