On Elizabeth Bishop
By: Colm Tóibín
Series: Writers on writers; Writers on writers
Publisher: Princeton Univ Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780691154114
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature; History
Description: "In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers interested in both Bishop and Tóibín"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205).
Table of contents: title: No detail too small; title: One of me; title: In the village; title: The art of losing; title: Nature greets our eyes; title: Order and disorder in Key West; title: The escape from history; title: Grief and reason; title: The little that we get for free; title: Art isn't worth that much; title: The Bartók bird; title: Efforts of affection; title: North American light.