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Author:

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.

Title:

Poems, prose, and letters / Elizabeth Bishop.

Publisher:

Distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvii, 979 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911-1979.
Women and literature--United States.--20th century.

Other Authors:

Giroux, Robert.
Schwartz, Lloyd, 1941-

Other Titles:

Selections. 2008

Notes:

"Robert Giroux & Lloyd Schwartz selected the contents and wrote the notes for this volume"--P. [vii]. Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 924-960) and indexes.

Contents:

Anaphora. The map -- The imaginary iceberg -- Casabianca -- The colder the air -- Wading at Wellfleet -- Chemin de fer -- The gentleman of Shalott -- Large bad picture -- From the country to the city -- The man-moth -- Love lies sleeping -- A miracle for breakfast -- The weed -- The unbeliever -- The monument -- Paris, 7 a.m. -- Quai d'Orleans -- Sleeping on the ceiling -- Sleeping standing up -- Cirque d'hiver -- Florida -- Jerónimo's house -- Roosters -- Seascape -- Little exercise -- The fish -- Late air -- Cootchie -- Songs for a colored singer -- Anaphora.
The shampoo. A cold spring -- Over 2000 illustrations and a complete concordance -- The bight -- A summer's dream -- Cape Breton -- At the fishhouses -- View of the capitol from the library of congress -- Insomnia -- The prodigal -- Faustina, or rock roses -- Varick Street -- Four poems -- Argument -- Letter to N.Y. -- The mountain -- Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore -- Arrival at Santos -- The shampoo.
Visits to St. Elizabeths. Brazil. Arrival at Santos ; Brazil, January 1, 1502 ; Questions of travel ; Squatter's children ; Manuelzinho ; Electrical storm ; Song for the rainy season ; The armadillo ; The riverman ; Twelfth morning; or What you will ; The burglar of Babylon -- Elsewhere. In the village ; Manners ; Sestina ; First death in Nova Scotia ; Filling station ; Sunday, 4 a.m. ; Sandpiper ; From Trollope's journal ; Visits to St. Elizabeths.
from The complete poems. Under the window : ouro preto. The hanging of the mouse -- Some dreams they forgot -- Song -- House guest -- Trouvée -- Going to the bakery -- Under the window : ouro preto.
Five flights up. In the waiting room -- Crusoe in England -- Night city -- The moose -- 12 o'clock news -- Poem -- One art -- The end of March -- Objects & apparitions -- Five flights up.
Late poems. Sonnet. North haven -- Pink dog -- Sonnet.
Uncollected poems. Thank-you note. Behind Stowe -- To a tree -- Thunder -- Sonnet -- Imber nocturnus -- For C.W.B -- The wave -- Dead -- A woord with you -- The flood -- Hymn to the virgin -- Three sonnets for the eyes -- Three valentines -- The reprimand -- The wit -- Exchanging hats -- A norther--Key West -- Thank-you note.
Unpublished poems and drafts. Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle. Once on a hill I met a man -- I am neither here nor there -- A lovely finish I have seen -- Britannia rules and the waves -- Song--for the clavichord -- Valentine V -- the past -- Luxembourg gardens -- In a room -- Lullaby for the cat -- To be written on the mirror in whitewash -- Sunday at Key West -- Dream-- -- Florida -- Money -- We hadn't meant to spend so much time -- The street by the cemetery -- The waterfall -- It is marvellous to wake up together -- Florida deserta -- For A.B. -- The salesman's evening -- Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box -- Key West -- Pleasure seas -- The soldier and the slot-machine -- Full moon, Key West -- The walls went on for years & years -- Don't you call me that word, honey -- Current dreams -- In the golden early morning -- In a cheap hotel -- To the admirable Miss Moore -- The owl's journey -- Verdigris -- For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia -- Syllables -- Where are the dolls who love me so -- A short, slow life -- Suidice of a moderate dictator -- To Manuel Bandeira, with jam and jelly -- St. John's day -- A baby found in the garbage -- Letter to two friends -- Foreign-domestic -- Keaton -- Brasil -- Gypsophilia -- Mimosas in bloom -- Rainy day, Rio -- Apartment in Leme -- For T.C.B. -- For the window-pane -- Dear, my compass -- Close, close all night -- A drunkard -- Lines written in a copy of Fannie Farmer's Boston cooking school cookbook, given to Frank Bidart -- Vague poem (vaguely love poem) -- For grandfather -- Breakfast song -- Salem willows -- Just north of Boston -- Dicky and sister -- Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle.
Translations. January first / Octavio Paz. Rainbow ; Patience of an angel ; Banks ; Hell is graduated / Max Jacob -- My last poem ; Brazilian tragedy / Manuel Bandeira -- from The death and life of a severino / João Cabral de Melo Neto -- Cemetery of childhood ; Elegy for Maria Alves / Joaquim Cardozo -- Seven-sided poem ; Don't kill yourself ; Travelling in the family ; The table ; Infancy ; In the middle of the road ; Family portrait / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Sonnet of intimacy / Vinícius de Moraes -- Four sambas. Rio de Janeiro ; Kick him out of office! ; Marshál, Illustrious Marshál ; Come, my mulatta -- A banda / Chico Buarque de Hollanda -- Stories. The smallest woman in the world ; A hen ; Marmosets / Clarice Lispector -- The key of water ; Along Galeana Street ; The grove ; January first / Octavio Paz.
Personal essays, reminiscences, and reporting. Efforts of affection : a memoir of Marianne Moore - To the Botequim & back. On being alone -- A mouse and mice -- Gregorio Valdes -- Mercedes hospital -- Introduction to The diary of Helena Morley -- A new capital, Aldous Huxley, and some indians -- Primer class -- The country mouse -- A warm and reasonable people -- On the railroad named delight -- The U.S.A. school of writing -- A trip to Vigia -- Wesley Wehr -- Efforts of affection : a memoir of Marianne Moore - To the Botequim & back.
Stories. Memories of Uncle Neddy. The thumb -- Then came the poor -- Chimney sweepers -- Seven-days monologue -- Mr. Pope's garden -- The last animal -- Was it in his hand? -- The baptism -- The sea and its shore -- In prison -- The farmer's children -- The housekeeper -- Gwendolyn -- Memories of Uncle Neddy.
Literary statements and reviews. Sandra McPherson's Radiation. The buck in the snow by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Time's andromedas -- Gerard Manley Hopkins : notes on timeing in his poetry -- Journey to the end of night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Dimensions for a novel -- As we like it : Miss Moore and the delight of imitation -- It all depends -- Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks -- XAIPE by E.E. Cummings -- Love from Emily : Emily Dickinson's letters -- What the young man said to the psalmist : Wallace Fowlie -- The manipulation of mirrors : Jules Laforgue -- I was but just awake : Walter de la Mare -- Writing poetry is an unnatural act-- -- Blurb for Life studies by Robert Lowell -- A sentimental tribute : Marianne Moore -- Some notes on Robert Lowell -- On The man-moth -- Flannery O'Connor : 1925-1964 -- An inadequate tribute : Randall Jarrell -- Introduction to The burglar of Babylon -- Preface to Woodlawn north by Milton Kessler -- Introduction to An anthology of twentieth-century Brazilian poetry -- A brief reminiscence and a brief tribute : Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden -- Laureate's words of acceptance -- foreword to Elizabeth Bishop : a bibliography -- Statement for the English memorial service for Robert Lowell -- Four blurbs. May Swenson's A cage of spines ; May Swenson's To mix with time ; Frank Bidart's Golden state ; Sandra McPherson's Radiation.
Letters. To John Frederick Nims, October 6, 1979. To Marianne Moore, December 5, 1936 -- To Marianne Moore, January 5, 1937 -- To T.C. Wilson, March 27, 1938 -- To T.C. Wilson, April 13, 1938 -- To Marianne Moore, May 14, 1942 -- To Marianne Moore, September 1, 1943 -- To Marianne Moore, August 29, 1946 -- To Robert Lowell, August 14, 1947 -- To Robert Lowell, June 30, 1947 -- To Robert Lowell, September 8, 1948 -- To Robert Lowell, January 21, 1949-- To Robert Lowell, December 5, 1950 -- To Robert Lowell, July 11, 1951 -- To Robert Lowell, November 26, 1951 -- To Ilse and Kit Barker, February 7, 1952 -- To Marianne Moore, March 3, 1952 -- To Pearl Kazin, February 10, 1953 -- To Pearl Kazin, November 16, 1953 -- To Marianne Moore, December 8, 1953 -- To Randall Jarrell, December 12, 1953 -- To Pearl Kazin, February 22, 1954 -- To May Swenson, September 6, 1955 -- To Pearl Kazin, May 21, 1956 -- To Randall Jarrell, October 7, 1956 -- To Robert Lowell, January 25, 1957 -- To Robert Lowell, December 14, 1957 -- To Robert Lowell, October 30, 1958 -- To May Swenson, November 10, 1959 -- To Robert Lowell, April 22, 1960 -- To Robert Lowell, May 19, 1960 -- To Anne Stevenson, March 18, 1963 -- To Anne Stevenson, March 20, 1963 -- To Robert Lowell, June 17, 1963 -- To Carlos Drummond de Andrade, June 27, 1963 -- To Anne Stevenson, October 2, 1963 -- To Anne Stevenson, January 8, 1964 -- To Randall Jarrell, February 25, 1965 -- To Randall Jarrell, March 20, 1965 -- To Lota de Macedo Soares, December 19, 1966 -- To Dr. Anny Baumann, January 20, 1967 -- To U.T. and Joseph Summers, September 23, 1967 -- To Robert Lowell, February 27, 1970 -- To Frank Bidart, July 27, 1971 -- To May Swenson, November 7, 1971 -- To Robert Lowell, April 10, 1972 -- To Juju Campbell, July 4, 1972 -- To Robert Boyers, July 9, 1973 -- To James Merrill, April 20, 1974 -- To Lloyd Schwartz, October 21, 1974 -- To Robert Lowell, January 16, 1975 -- To Herbert E. Kaplan, March 26, 1977 -- To John Frederick Nims, October 6, 1979.

Series:

Library of America ; 180

ISBN:

1598530178 (alk. paper)
9781598530179 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)166359968

LCCN:

2007935885

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