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Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
"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...
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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"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"--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205)
No detail too small -- One of me -- In the village -- The art of losing -- Nature greets our eyes -- Order and disorder in Key West -- The escape from history -- Grief and reason -- The little that we get for free -- Art isn't worth that much -- The Bartók bird -- Efforts of affection -- North Atlantic light -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.
