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Poems

by Elizabeth Bishop

A poetic career shaped by place and perception

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Awards & Recognition

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    A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011

    Named a Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011.

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A poetic career shaped by place and perception

Elizabeth Bishop’s poems bring geography and close observation into view, ranging from New England to Brazil and Florida. The collection attends to landscapes, nature, and human lives while returning to questions of knowledge, perception, and whether poetic form can contain disorder. Humor and sadness, pain and acceptance, are among the contrasts identified in the book’s description. Presented as a definitive edition encompassing Bishop’s career, the volume offers a broad view of these recurring concerns across her poetry.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in American poetry and the work of Elizabeth Bishop.
  • Readers drawn to poetry about landscape, nature, and human connection.
  • Readers interested in questions of perception and poetic form.

Themes

Geography and landscapeHuman connection with natureKnowledge and perceptionForm and chaosHumor, sadness, pain, and acceptance

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Book overview

A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011

This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike. Bishop's poems combine humor and sadness, pain and acceptance, and observe nature and lives in perfect miniaturist close-up. The themes central to her poetry are geography and landscape--from New England, where she grew up, to Brazil and Florida, where she later lived--human connection with the natural world, questions of knowledge and perception, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.

This new edition offers readers the opportunity to take in, entire, one of the great careers in twentiethcentury poetry.

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