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and artistic exchange
archival interviews about a literary figure
artistic communities of the 1950s and 60s
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biography through interviews
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confessional era literary networks
correspondence and creative process
craft interviews with writers
craft of lyric poetry
creative friendships in literature
critical reception history
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expatriate writers in Brazil
friendships
friendships shaping literary careers
human side of literary figures
influence among contemporary poets
intellectual life of poets
landscape and seascape imagery studies
letters
LGBTQ literary history in the twentieth century
literary biography of a major poet
literary editing and publishing history
literary reputation and canon formation
literary salons and readings history
memory and legacy in literature
mentorship and teaching in creative writing
midcentury American arts scene
modernist and postwar poetry scene
music and verse influences
New York and Boston literary communities
oral history of a writer's life
personal recollections from contemporaries
personal voice in modern verse
poetic form and observation
poetic influences and inspirations
poetic travel writing
poetry
poetry and visual art connections
poets in conversation and memory
poets reflecting on peers
small press and magazine culture
teaching literature in universities
translation and cross-cultural poetics
travel and place in a poet's life
twentieth-century American poetry circles
university writing programs development
women poets in modern literature
Product details
- ISBN 9781558490161
- Weight: 675g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 1996
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book interweaves more than 120 interviews with relatives, friends, colleagues, and students of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), one of America's finest poets. Among the interviewees are numerous intellectual and artistic figures, including John Ashbery, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Giroux, Clement Greenberg, Thom Gunn, John Hollander, Mary McCarthy, James Merrill, Katha Pollitt, Ned Rorem, Lloyd Schwartz, Anne Stevenson, Rosalyn Tureck, Helen Vendler and Richard Wilbur. The chronology which governs this work is as follows: childhood, 1911-1927; Walnut Hill, 1927-1930; Vassar, 1930-1934; New York, Europe and Key West, 1934-1940; Key West and New York, 1941-1948; Washington, D.C. and Yaddo, 1948-1951; Brazil, 1951-1957; Brazil, 1958-1965; Seattle, 1966; Brazil, 1966-1967; San Francisco, 1967-1969; Ouro Preto, 1969-1973; Cambridge and Boston, 1973-1977; and Boston, 1977-1979.
