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Presented in two sections, "Memory: Persons and Places" and "Stories," this book offers the collected prose writings of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), one of America's most celebrated and admired poets. The selections are arranged not by date of compostion, but in biographical order, such that reading this volume greatly enriches one's understanding of Bishop's life--and thus her poetry as well. "Bishop's admirers will want to consult her Collected Prose for the light it sheds on her poetry," as David Lehman wrote in Newsweek. "They will discover, however, that it is more than just a handsome companion volume to [her] Complete Poems. . . . Bishop's clean, limpid prose makes her stories and memoirs a delight to read. . . . One regrets only that this volume cannot be added to in years to come." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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There are only three works of literature that affected me so profoundly--and so immediately--that their contents are fused in my memory with the time and place in which I read (or inhaled) them. The first was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which caused me to soak a loaf of bread in water in the kitchen of my grandmother's house); the second was Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Experience," which pictured for me the grief in which I swam for two years after the suicide of my older brother, Bradley; and the third was Elizabeth Bishop's late, semi-autobiographical poem, "In the Waiting Room." Here is not the place to discuss the mystical wonder--and horror--of this poem's depiction of a brilliant young girl in Worchester, MA, realizing that she is queer in the midst of a culture of war, repression, poverty, crude patriotism, and reflexive censorship. However, what is remarkable about this collected volume of the prose of Elizabeth Bishop is how it makes one realize that of all those (including Virginia Woolf) who spoke about the new relationships between poetry and prose, Bishop was the one who had the greatest and most startling achievements in this area. Her poems (particularly the later ones) are, on one level, what might be called "plain narratives"--they are also symbolic narratives, etiological narratives, and epiphanic narratives. Anyone who reads, admires, or studies Bishop's poetry must read her prose, which "accompanies" and "companions" her poetry. ( )