April Bernard’s most recent collection of poems is Romanticism. A novel, Miss Fuller, will be coming out in the spring.
(December 2011)
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What I Hate About Writers’ Houses
December 22, 2011
Seeds: One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton
by Richard Horan
A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses
by Anne Trubek
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More From Elizabeth Bishop?
May 26, 2011
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A Genius Ill-Served
March 24, 2011
Poems
by Elizabeth Bishop
Prose
by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Lloyd Schwartz
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence
edited by Joelle Biele
One Art/ Elizabeth Bishop
Letters selected and edited by Robert Giroux
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose & Letters
edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
edited by Alice Quinn
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Romance
November 2, 2006
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Funny Weather
March 14, 2002
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Un-Efican Activities
June 22, 1995
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
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Exile’s Return
January 13, 1994
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier
Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry by Lorrie Goldensohn
Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity by Joanne Feit Diehl
Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art
edited by Lloyd Schwartz, edited by Sybil P. Estess
Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell by David Kalstone, edited by Robert Hemenway, afterword by James Merrill
The Complete Poems, 19271979 by Elizabeth Bishop
The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and with an introduction by Robert Giroux
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Against Biography
July 18, 1985
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Third Station of the Cross
November 22, 1984
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Here's What I Hate About Writers' Houses
August 11, 2011
On the subject of Writers’ Houses, that dark genius Robert Frost would have understood the paradox I find myself inhabiting: that I hate them in general, but soften to something like affection in the face of particular places. Frost enjoyed mocking his own, and others’, ambivalences, especially when personal feeling interfered with principle. Whether or not he also would have enjoyed hearing my footsteps in his old parlor and study is another matter; I would guess not.