num_pages: 361
description: « In Worcester, Massachusetts»: Essays on Elizabeth Bishop reflects the growing interest in the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). The thirty-four contributors to the volume - scholars, creative writers, poets, translators, and biographers - offer essays on a fascinating array of Bishop's crucial and troubled relationship with her birthplace, Worcester, Massachusetts; Bishop as translator and translated; her poetics, travels, and sexual and racial politics; her paintings; her manuscripts and methods of composition; and her place in the canon of American literature.
language: English
title: "In Worcester, Massachusetts": Essays on Elizabeth Bishop From the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference at WPI
titlecomplete: "In Worcester, Massachusetts": Essays on Elizabeth Bishop From the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference at WPI
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers