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Poems

Elizabeth Bishop is one of America's greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike. The poems that make up Bishop's small and select body of work display honesty and humor, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. Her poems often start outwardly, with geography and landscape--from New England and Nova Scotia, where she grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived-- and move inexorably toward "the interior," exploring as they do fundamental questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos

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  • ISBN: 9780374126568
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  • Physical Description xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Edition First edition
  • Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011

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Includes index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Formatted Contents Note:
The COMPLETE POEMS (1969) -- North & South (1946): -- The Map -- The Imaginary Iceberg -- Casabianca -- The Colder the Air -- Wading at Wellfleet -- Chemin de fer -- The Gentlemen of Shalott -- Large Bad Picture -- From the Country to the City -- The Man-Moth -- Love Lies Sleeping -- A Miracle for Breakfast -- The Weed -- The Unbeliever -- The Monument -- Paris, 7 A.M. -- Quai d'Orl©♭ans -- Sleeping on the Ceiling -- Sleeping Standing Up -- Cirque d'Hiver -- Florida -- Jer©đnimo's House -- Roosters -- Seascape -- Little Exercise -- The Fish -- Late Air -- Cootchie -- Songs for a Colored Singer -- Anaphora -- A Cold Spring (1955): -- A Cold Spring -- Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance -- The Bight -- A Summer's Dream -- At the Fishhouses -- Cape Breton -- View of The Capitol for The Library of Congress -- Insomnia -- The Prodigal -- Faustina, or Rock Roses -- Varick Street -- Four Poems: I / Conversation ; II / Rain Towards Morning ; III / While Someone Telephones ; IV / O Breath -- Letter to N.Y. -- Argument -- Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore -- The Shampoo -- Questions of Travel (1965) -- BRAZIL: -- Arrival at Santos -- Brazil, January 1, 1502 -- Questions of Travel -- Squatter's Children -- Manuelzinho -- Electrical Storm -- Song for the Rainy Season -- The Armadillo -- The Riverman -- Twelfth Morning; or What You Will -- The Burglar of Babylon -- ELSWHERE: -- Manners -- Sestina -- First Death in Nova Scotia -- Filling Station -- Sunday, 4 A.M. -- Sandpiper -- From Trollope's Journal -- Visits to St. Elizabeths -- Translations from the Portuguese (1969): -- Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Seven-Sided Poem -- Don't Kill Yourself -- Travelling in the Family -- The Table -- Jo©Đo Cabral de Melo Neto -- From The Death and Life of a Severino -- New and Uncollected Work (1969): -- Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics: Giant Toad ; Strayed Crab ; Giant Snail -- The Hanging of the Mouse -- Some Dreams They Forgot -- Song -- House Guest -- Trouv©♭e -- Going to the Bakery -- Under the Window: Ouro Pr©®to -- Geography III (1976): -- In the Waiting Room -- Crusoe in England -- Night City -- The Moose -- 12 O'Clock News -- Poem -- One Art -- The End of March -- Objects & Apparitions -- Five Flights Up -- NEW AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1978-1979): -- Santar©♭m -- North Haven -- Pink Dog -- Sonnet -- UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1933-1969): -- The Flood -- A Word with You -- Hymn to the Virgin -- Three Sonnets for the Eyes: I / Tidal Basin ; II / [They all Kept Looking at Each Others Eyes] ; III / [Thy Senses Are Too Different to Please Me] -- Three Valentines -- The Reprimand -- The Mountain -- The Wit -- Exchanging Hats -- A Norher-Key West -- Thank-You Note -- UNCOLLECTED TRANSLATIONS (1950-1975): -- FROM THE FRENCH: Max Jacob: Rainbow ; Patience of an Angel ; Banks ; Hell Is Graduated -- FROM THE PORTUGUESE: Manuel Bandeira: My Last Poem ; Brazilian Tragedy -- Joaquim Cardozo: Cemetery of Childhood ; Elegy for Maria Alves -- Carlos Drummond de Andrade: Infancy ; In the Middle of the Road ; Family Portrait -- Vin©Ưcius de Moraes: Sonnet of Intimacy -- Anonymous: -- Four Sambas: Rio de Janeiro ; Kick him out of office! ; March©Łl, Illustrious Marsh©Łl ; Come, my mulata -- FROM THE SPANISH: -- Octavio Paz: The Key of Water ; Along Galeana Street -- The Grove -- January First -- APPENDIX I: Selected Unpublished Manuscript Poems: -- A NOTE ON THE TEXT -- Good-Bye- -- "We went to the dark cave of the street-corner ..." -- In a Room -- To Be Written on the Mirror in Whitewash -- The Street by the Cemetery -- For A.B. -- Pleasure Seas -- "It is marvellous to wake up together ..." -- Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box -- The Soldier and the Slot-Machine -- "I had a bad dream ..." -- The Owl's Journey -- "Where are the dolls who loved me so ..." -- A Short, Slow Life -- Suicide of a Moderate Dictator -- Keaton -- Death of Mimoso -- Apartment in Leme -- "Dear, my compass ..." -- Inventory -- A Drunkard -- Lines written in a copy of Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cook Book, given to Frank Bidart -- Vague Poem (Vaguely love poem) -- Breakfast Song -- For Grandfather -- Salem Willows -- Florida Revisited -- APPENDIX II: Contents of Elizabeth Bishop's Books of Poetry on First Publication, 1946-1977 -- Index of Titles and First Lines