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Author:

Walker, Cheryl, 1947-

Title:

God and Elizabeth Bishop : meditations on religion and poetry / Cheryl Walker.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xi, 157 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911-1979--Criticism and interpretation.
Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911-1979--Religion.
Christianity and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Religion in literature
God in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-150) and index.

Contents:

1. Time and eternity -- Beginnings -- Elizabeth Bishop: an unconventional life -- 2. The fall -- Ashes, ashes ... -- The fortunate fall -- The prodigal -- Roosters -- New, tender, and quick -- 3. Love and longing -- Putting love into action -- The filling station -- Comic relief -- Mysteries are not to be solved -- Infant sight -- 4. Suffering meaning -- The nature of things -- The dark night of the soul -- The end of the road -- A comic interlude -- At the fishhouses -- 5. Blessed are the poor -- Unreasonable charity -- The dignity of affliction -- I-thou -- Critical practices -- The still, small voice -- Wit's wisdom -- 6. Assent -- Jacob's ladder -- Nothing but plenty -- Dividing the heart -- Coming together -- Otherworldiness -- Good to eat a thousand years.

ISBN:

9781403966315
1403966311

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57069186
(OCoLC)60962855

LCCN:

2004063106

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)