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Bishop, Elizabeth The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
Farrar, Straus and Giroux April 1, 1984 0-374-51817-3 / 9780374518172 Paperback Near Fine
Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't wan t to be seen as a "woman poet." In 1977, two years before her death she wro te, "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 wi th such detached passion by her friend Robert Lowell, the confessional. Bishop was unforgiving of fashion and limited ways of seeing and feeling, b ut 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 appro ach. The poems are sublimely controlled, fraught with word play, fierce mor al vision (see her caustic ballad on Ezra Pound, "Visits to St. Elizabeths" ), and reticence. From the surreal sorrow of the early "Man-Moth" (leaping off from a typo she had come across for "mammoth"), 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" (with its repeated "the art of losin g isn't hard to master"), the poet wittily explores distance and desolation , separation and sorrow. The New York Times Book Review, David Bromwich Like all great poets, she was less a maker of poems than a maker of feelings.
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