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    <body><![CDATA[Elizabeth Bishop is one of the top five poets writing in English of the 20th C.  She writes poems of such simplicity and beauty, about her hard childhood in Nova Scotia, and her  time in Brazil with her girlfriend, which ended in suicide and heartbreak.  The emotion in the poems is always controlled...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12304719">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the poetry of elizabeth bishop is as good as anything written in any language.  she is a true master of the art of saying things.  i could not be more impressed by a writer.  she is the gold standard of clever.<br/><br/>her poems are heartbreaking and sublime.  the language is utterly gorgeous and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72103378">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book should really just be on my &quot;currently-reading&quot; list and remain there permanently.  I have never fallen for a poet so quickly and fully.  I love her choice of words, her diversity in subject matter, her voice comes through so clearly to me.  I have had a harder time with some of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56816969">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was prepared not to like Elizabeth Bishop. Nature, traditional form, rhyme all that stuff I'm not terribly fond of in poetry are in evidence. But once I got past that prejudice (Why do I even have that prejudice? I love Wordsworth and Blake, so why can't I abide formalism in contemporary writing?)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4829853">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The perfect poet.  Everyone of her poems make<br/>me want to write like her, of course I can't but just<br/>maybe.  Elizabeth you are great. <br/>Favoites are North &amp; Sough and Geography III poems.<br/>Makes me want to  move to Brazil or Maine.        ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;At the Fishhouse&quot; alone is worth the cover price. Bishop has a patient and precise eye and never pulls her punches. I love her. ]]></body>
    
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