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Elizabeth Bishop, a miracle for breakfast, Megan Marshall

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Elizabeth Bishop, a miracle for breakfast, Megan Marshall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Elizabeth Bishop

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

969439459

Responsibility statement

Megan Marshall

Sub title

a miracle for breakfast

Summary

"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets. Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet -- painfully shy and living out of public view in Key West and Brazil, among other hideaways -- she has never been seen so fully as a woman and an artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop's letters -- to her psychiatrist and to three of her lovers -- to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known, a secret affair, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with the Brazilian modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares. These elements of Bishop's life, along with her friendships with poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, are brought to life with novelistic intensity. And by alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir, Marshall, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry workshop at Harvard, offers the reader a compelling glimpse of the ways poetry and biography, subject and biographer, are entwined. Finally, in this riveting portrait of a life lived for -- and saved by -- art, Marshall captures the enduring magic of Bishop's creative achievement"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Other Books by this Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Introduction; Contents; List of Illustrations; October 21, 1979: Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard; Chapter 1: Balcony; April 29, 1975: Ninth-Floor Conference Room, Holyoke Center; Chapter 2: Crumb; October 5, 1976: Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard; Chapter 3: Coffee; January 12, 1977: 437 Lewis Wharf, Boston; Chapter 4: River; Spring 1977: Pusey Library, Harvard Yard; Chapter 5: Miracle; June 14, 1977: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall; Chapter 6: SunEnvoy: January 23, 2014, Patou Thai, Belmont CenterBack Matter; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; Text Permission Acknowledgments; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine

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