Book
On Elizabeth Bishop
Publication Information
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Physical Description
209 pages ; 20 cm.
Series
Summary
"In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers interested in both Bishop and Tóibín."--Jacket.
Contents
- No detail too small
- One of me
- In the village
- The art of losing
- Nature greets our eyes
- Order and disorder in Key West
- The escape from history
- Grief and reason
- The little that we get for free
- Art isn't worth that much
- The Bartók bird
- Efforts of affection
- North American light.