Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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And all of a sudden I realized what a fish it was, and what a feat it was to catch such a fish, and the poem broke over me like the rainbows that fill its last lines. I was thrilled by this poem that started so quietly, and yet could...
IGNORING convention and fashion, Elizabeth Bishop has gone about her work making poems as quiet and stunning as "The Fish" for nearly 40 years. She chooses her words carefully: she has published only four volumes in the course of her career. But her work has won her an honored place...
It would be presumptuous of me to attempt a critical appraisal of the celebrated eye, or the subtle, reserved personalism of Miss Bishop's poems. Besides, you can feel them for yourself when you read her. All I can say is that they strike me as poems without equivalent. They...
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
This kind of genius, and that is what it is, comes to us so rarely that when it does, it defies all our expectations, all our pretentious preconceptions, all our prejudices. Elizabeth Bishop caters to no one, except to the careful reader. Her poems are not easy, and they make...