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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art_Letters?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="One Art: Letters" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1171896770m/125225.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art_Letters?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">One Art: Letters</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/6987263?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>I still don't like her or her asshead high school (I had to pump sixteen inches of water out of a basement there last night and am sitting in the basement of her old dorm as I write this (I think)), but a lifetime of letters is almost always an incredible thing. This set got me very interested in Marianne Moore. <br/> <br/>P.S. I think the choice of last letter was unfortunate--even if it was written on the day of her death. <br/> <br/>P.P.S. She didn't like Charlotte's Web?!?!?! <br/> <br/>P.P.P.S. They engraved an E.E. Cummings poem on the stone outside of the brand new Walnut Hill Elizabeth Bishop dormitory. It's a hilarious choice since she didn't like him (she says so in one of the letters written towards the end of her life). <br/> <br/>-Please forgive the pettiness of this review- <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/263326?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>