Poems, Prose and Letters

Resumen del libro

This unprecedented collection from The Library of America offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes as North x{0026} South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III. In addition it contains an extensive selection of unpublished poems and drafts of poems (several not previously collected), as well as all her published poetic translations, ranging from a chorus from Aristophanes' The Birds to versions of Brazilian sambas.

Poems, Prose, and Letters also brings together most of her published prose writings, including stories; reminiscences; travel writing about the places (Nova Scotia, Florida, Brazil) that so profoundly marked her poetry; and literary essays and statements, including a number of pieces published here for the first time. The book is rounded out with a selection of Bishop's irresistibly engaging and self-revelatory letters. Of the 53 letters included here, written between 1933 and 1979, a considerable number are printed for the first time, and all are presented in their entirety. Their recipients include Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Anne Stevenson, May Swenson, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Biografía del autor

Desde la publicación de su primer libro en 1946, Elizabeth Bishop (Massachusetts, 1911-Boston, 1979) fue considerada como una de las poetas estadounidenses más importantes de su tiempo, y su prestigio y su influencia no han dejado de crecer en poetas y escritores de generaciones posteriores. Viajera incansable, poeta, profesora, conferenciante, articulista, entre sus obras más destacadas encontramos North and South / A Cold Spring (Pulitzer, 1956) y Geografía III (Premio Internacional Neustadt de Literatura, 1976). Murió en Boston el 6 de octubre de 1979. Solo publicó 101 poemas.