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  • Love Unknown

    The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

    by Thomas Travisano ...
    **An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop"Love Unknown points movingly to the many relationships that moored Bishop, keeping her together even as life—and her own self-destructive tendencies—threatened to split her apart.” —The Wall Street Journal**Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Love Unknown

    The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

    by Thomas Travisano ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth BishopElizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon

    by Thomas Travisano ...
    The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon collects Thomas Travisano’s enlightening essays about the poet and her work, written over the course of thirty-plus years. Beginning with the founding of the Elizabeth Bishop Society and moving through work on the editing of her letters and the writing of her biography, Travisano charts the steps by which Bishop ascended from a “good minor poet” to being recognized ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Words in Air

    The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

    by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell ...
    Three decades of correspondence between two great twentieth-century American poets: "A brilliant testament to the pleasure and power of good company. . . . These two lifetimes of mutual admiration make for irresistible reading" (Oprah.com)." Words in Air takes its place—amid the letters of Keats and Hopkins and Owen—as one of the great poetic correspondences." — The Atlantic... ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Elizabeth Bishop in the Twenty-First Century

    Reading the New Editions

    Edited by Angus Cleghorn, Bethany Hicok, Thomas Travisano ...
    In recent years, a series of major collections of posthumous writings by Elizabeth Bishop--one of the most widely read and discussed poets of the twentieth century--have been published, profoundly affecting how we look at her life and work. The hundreds of letters, poems, and other writings in these volumes have expanded Bishop‘s published work by well over a thousand pages and placed before the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Black Beans and Diamonds

    Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop

    Translated by Neil K. Besner ...
    by Regina Przybycien ...
    Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien’s Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational study of the critical and highly productive years from 1951 to 1974 during which the American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived and worked in Brazil.Now available in English for the first time, the book provides Bishop scholars and her steadily growing audience of general readers a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop

    by Anne Stevenson ...
    Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop is a highly illuminating reader's guide written by another leading poet which makes full use of the letters Elizabeth Bishop wrote to Anne Stevenson from Brazil in the 1960s. Anne Stevenson is a major American and British poet who has ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Steinbeck

    A Life in Letters

    by John Steinbeck ...
    "Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book ReviewFor John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated; on marriage, women, and children; on the condition of the world; and on his progress in learning his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    by Tom Nissley ...
    A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    A Miracle for Breakfast

    by Megan Marshall ...
    A biography of the brilliant, award-winning poet by one of her former students, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Margaret Fuller.Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's most revered poets. And yet she has never been fully understood as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979

    Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle

    Edited by Saskia Hamilton ...
    The correspondence between one of the most famous couples of twentieth-century literatureThe Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centered on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of their ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop

    Edited by Angus Cleghorn, Jonathan Ellis ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. Initially celebrated for the minute detail of her descriptions, what John Ashbery memorably called her 'thinginess', Bishop's reputation has risen dramatically since her death, in part due to the publication of new work, including letters, stories, and visual art, as well as a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD