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Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Losing: She was vigilant about giving nothing away in her poetry, but a new biography examines her harrowing personal life.
--from the March 6th issue of The New Yorker.

A lengthy but very interesting article; I didn't know she was so closely acquainted with Marianne Moore, or Robert Lowell...

...and as to the rest, it brings to mind Akmatova's famous lines--

"Oh, if you only knew, out of what kind of rubbish
The verses sprout, knowing no shame..."

Such beautiful work, out of such abject misery...