Descrizione
Farrar, Straus and Giroux ; 2011; ? 0374532362; Copertina flessibile ; 23 x 15 cm; pp. 351; Volume con ill. in b./n..; Presenta leggeri segni d’uso ai bordi (piccole imperfezioni), interno senza scritte; Molto buono, (come da foto). ; “Of all the splendid and curious works belonging to my time, these are the poems that I love best and tire of least.” JAMES MERRILL, The Washington Post Book World Elizabeth Bishop is one of America’s greatest writers, and her art is loved and ad-mired 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. This new edition includes all the poems that Bishop herself saw into print and a selection of unfinished, posthumously published work. It offers readers the opportunity to experience entire one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry. “The extraordinary thing about Miss Bishop is that she is both a public and a private poet, or perhaps it is that her poetry by its very existence renders obsolete these two after all artificial distinctions (artificial insofar as poetry is concerned). The private self-the quirkiness, the rightness of vision, the special sights and events (a moose, a filling station) that have intrigued Miss Bishop to the point of poetry-melts imperceptibly into the larger utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds ‘grand,’ but is as quietly convincing as honest speech.” JOHN ASHBERY ;
