Elizabeth Bishop''s Poetics of Description
ISBN: 9780773576100
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Bishop Elizabeth 1911–1979 -- Criticism and interpretation;

Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description argues that attention to the material realm informs everything Bishop does. Seen through this lens, many familiar topics look remarkably different. Bishop's relationship to travel, epiphany, surrealism, and imagery are all transformed, and a timely new Bishop emerges - one quite different from the postmodern poet that has dominated recent scholarship.

Zachariah Pickard is assistant professor of language and literature at Bard High School Early College II in New York City.

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