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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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. For Tóibín, the secret of Bishop's emotional power is in what sh
Cover; Title; Copyright ; Dedication; CONTENTS; 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
