Poems: The Centenary Edition

Resumen del libro

This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where Bishop grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived - and move inexorably toward the interior, exploring questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.

This new edition, edited by Saskia Hamilton, includes Bishop's four published volumes (North x{0026} South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel and Geography III), as well as uncollected poems, translations and an illuminating selection of unpublished manuscript poems, reproduced in facsimile, revealing exactly how finished, or unfinished, Bishop left them. It offers readers the opportunity to enjoy the complete poems of one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century.

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.