I have a volume of Elizabeth Bishop's "complete poetry" to which I return more often than almost any other book of poems on my shelf (probably second only to Eliot's Four Quartets), and it's not because we share a surname. She really was a master.
Interesting! Placement alongside the Four Quarters is high praise. I’m familiar with some of her poems but not her corpus - which other poems would you name as favorites?
This is extraordinary.
She was quite good at what she did.
Gorgeous gobfulls of briny beauty!
Nothing but! (And the enigma of the hymns was a nice thing to rediscover.)
Yes, made think of St Anthony communing with the fishies. Love the idea of singing to bemused seals! Holy poetry’s mad sanity.
I have a volume of Elizabeth Bishop's "complete poetry" to which I return more often than almost any other book of poems on my shelf (probably second only to Eliot's Four Quartets), and it's not because we share a surname. She really was a master.
Interesting! Placement alongside the Four Quarters is high praise. I’m familiar with some of her poems but not her corpus - which other poems would you name as favorites?