Book Talk: Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive Part IV
Channel: Lever Press
Date: 2021-01-13

Episode IV: Bishop's Curatorial Practice. Editor Bethany Hicok and contributing authors of the book _Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive_ (Lever Press, 2020) discuss their work, their experiences collaborating with colleagues in the Bishop archive at Vassar College, and why they chose Lever Press to publish their book. Contributors include Richard Flynn, Alyse Knorr, Yaël Schlick, Heather Treseler, and John Emil Vincent. 

Here the authors discuss curatorial practice, the creative process, and their own process of writing their chapters, in the context of poet Elizabeth Bishop's process for writing her poetry.

References include Bishop's poems "One Art" (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art) and "The Moose" (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48288/the-moose-56d22967e5820).

Read the book for free here: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11649332 .