false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171896770m/125225.jpg 125225 6 <I>One Art</I> is the best biography we have of the elusive Elizabeth Bishop. Robert Giroux, her editor and friend, has chosen well--and discreetly--from among the poet's several thousand letters. The collection begins with correspondence she wrote while still at Vassar in the '30s and ends with a letter written on the day she died, October 6, 1979. ("Well, I could go on--but I won't!" Bishop writes.) Still, we now have more than 600 pages of witty, well-mannered missives that often shade into deep emotion. Seemingly casual observation is a staple of Bishop's art and a delight in the letters: writing to Marianne Moore in 1938, she asserts that an unappealing stray she is nonetheless feeding looks just like Picasso's <I>Absinthe Drinker</I>. Nor is she any less irreverent when it comes to the lifestyles of the poetic and famous. In 1950, she tells Robert Lowell that she's reading Yeats's <I>A Vision</I>--"or trying to. Have you? Sometimes it's Jungian. The picture of Yeats going 'Woof! Woof!' in a lower berth, in the dark, in California, in order to wake up his wife, who was dreaming she was a cat, is very pleasing, I think." <P>Bishop often hid her sadness behind charm, but she could also be astonishingly frank. In addition to the personal revelations, there are discussions of poems' origins. "Quite a few lines of 'At the Fishhouses' came to me in a dream," she tells U. T. and Joseph Summers. "And the scene--which was real enough, I'd recently been there--but the old man and the conversation, etc., were all in a later dream." One caveat: Robert Giroux has kept commentary and notes to a minimum, so it's worth reading his introduction for deep background before you begin. 1017350 1994 One Art: Letters total:120|5:61|4:44|3:14|2:1|1:0| 120 525 193 8 1031089 0374226407 9780374226404 3 1 4.38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180365793m/1031089.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1031089.One_Art_Letters 3 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 07:33:52 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 07:55:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 125225 0374524459 9780374524456 115 7 4.38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171896770m/125225.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art_Letters 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 29 06:28:44 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 12 09:28:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 125225 0374524459 9780374524456 115 7 4.38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171896770m/125225.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art_Letters 0 0 false Thu Jun 11 22:12:57 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 22:12:57 -0700 2009 125225 0374524459 9780374524456 115 7 4.38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171896770m/125225.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art_Letters 5 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 11:47:28 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 06 11:51:44 -0800 2007 more...]]> 125225 0374524459 9780374524456 115 7 4.38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171896770m/125225.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art_Letters 4 0 false Mon Jun 23 07:35:46 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 07:37:22 -0700 2008 125225 0374524459 9780374524456 115 7 4.38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171896770m/125225.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art_Letters 5 0 false Tue Dec 16 08:08:09 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 06 09:52:09 -0800 2009
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