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"Elizabeth Bishop's Art of Losing"

Mar. 24th, 2017 at 12:20 PM

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...

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debriswoman

Mar. 25th, 2017 09:56 am (UTC)

I did not know much about her and found this fascinating...you have posted her poetry before ( the art of losing?) I am tempted to look at her other work.

med_cat

Mar. 25th, 2017 08:10 pm (UTC)

Indeed...I didn't know much about her, except for a couple of poems I'd seen in anthologies. Yes, I'd posted two--"The Art of Losing" and the "Sestina". The article had the backstory to "The Art of Losing", as you saw.

Same for Marianne Moore--I'd read a few of her poems, but didn't know much beyond that. Robert Lowell's work didn't engage my interest...

I've a few more of Bishop's poems scheduled to post, and yes, many of them are online :)

debriswoman

Mar. 25th, 2017 08:24 pm (UTC)

:-)

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