Volume 41, Number 1 & 2 · January 13, 1994
Exile's Return
By April Bernard
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It
by Brett C. Millier
University of California Press, 602 pp., $28.00
Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry
by Lorrie Goldensohn
Columbia University Press, 306 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity
by Joanne Feit Diehl
Princeton University Press, 119 pp., $17.95
Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art
edited by Lloyd Schwartz, edited by Sybil P. Estess
University of Michigan Press, 341 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell
by David Kalstone, edited by Robert Hemenway, afterword by James Merrill
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 299 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Complete Poems, 1927–1979
by Elizabeth Bishop
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 287 pp., $10.95 (paper)
The Collected Prose
by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and with an introduction by Robert Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 8 pp., $12.95 (paper)
To one expecting a glamorous Famous Poet, the sight that first day of class dismayed: a small, white-haired woman, shy and weary, adorned with, of all things, a brooch. That winter and spring of 1977 in a basement room at Harvard, about a dozen of us met for Elizabeth Bishop's weekly seminar on modern poetry, which consisted almost entirely of her reading aloud, in a dry drone, from the works of Frost, Stevens, and Moore.
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