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Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography

Autor Gary Fountain, J Ronald Harrison
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 feb 1996
This book interweaves more than 120 interviews with relatives, friends, colleagues, and students of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), one of America's finest poets. Among the interviewees are numerous intellectual and artistic figures, including John Ashbery, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Giroux, Clement Grenberg, Thom Gunn, John Hollander, Mary McCarthy, James Merrill, Katha Pollitt, Ned Rorem, Lloyd Schwartz, Anne Stevenson, Rosalyn Turek, Helen Vendler, and Richard Wilber.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781558490161
ISBN-10: 1558490167
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 62 b&w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press

Recenzii

"Remembering Elizabeth Bishop amply succeeds in what it proposes to do: It offers an intimate view of Bishop's desperate and lonely life, as that life was observed by those who were there at the time--and those observers are a particularly perceptive and articulate lot."—New York Times Book Review

"A multivocal treatment well suited to the complex and dappled life of one of America's premier modern poets."—Kirkus Reviews

"This is not a random collection of reminiscences, but--thanks to Gary Fountain's brilliant intercutting of interviews done by himself and Peter Brazeau--a genuine biography, a collage that somehow constitutes a vision of Bishop's life. It illuminates much that hitherto was obscure, and is the indispensable companion to her letters. Bishop's life, idiosyncratic, seemingly marginal, was exemplary. Her masked but intense refusal to be anything but herself reveals like an x-ray the contradictions and pleasures of twentieth-century culture. The tragedies at the root of her life were at the root of the mastery achieved by her art."—Frank Bidart

Notă biografică

Gary Fountain is chair of the English department at Miss Porter's School. The late Peter Brazeau was author of Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered.