Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence

by Elizabeth Bishop

Book Overview

I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.--with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor," Elizabeth Bishop said upon learning a friend landed a job at The New Yorker in the early 1950s. From 1933 until her death in 1979, Bishop published the vast majority of her poems in the magazine's pages. During...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374281386
• ISBN13: 9780374281380
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.6"