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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/420278.The_Complete_Poems_1927_1979?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Complete Poems, 1927-1979" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1208742835m/420278.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/420278.The_Complete_Poems_1927_1979?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Complete Poems, 1927-1979</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41588.Elizabeth_Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12304719?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>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 by perfect language and images that retain their freshness. <br/>Some of my favorite poems are "First Death in Nova Scotia", "At the Fish-houses", "Cape Breton", "One Art", and "Manuelzinho"<br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/773531?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>