Volume 24, Number 10 · June 9, 1977
RSVP
By Michael Wood
Geography III
by Elizabeth Bishop
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 50 pp., $7.95
Elizabeth Bishop's poetry is full of invitations. Look, it says; watch; think; listen. Yet it is never bullying. These are invitations, not instructions, and when they begin to sound bossy, a note of parody usually creeps in. The poet impersonates a schoolmistress embarrassed by her hectoring authority:
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