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Author Kalstone, David.

Title Becoming a poet : Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell / David Kalstone ; edited with a preface by Robert Hemenway ; afterword by James Merrill.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [1989]
©1989

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  811.52 MOORE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  811.52 KAL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-290).
Contents Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: From the country to the city -- Trial balances -- Observations -- Logarithms of apology. Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell: Prodigal years -- Summer of 1948 -- Prose -- Under a reading-glass -- Questions of travel -- Questions of memory.
Summary Becoming a Poet is the first full-scale critical/biographical consideration of a writer who is coming more and more to be seen as a major mid-century American figure.-- Publisher description.
Subject Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Correspondence.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 -- Correspondence.
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 -- Correspondence.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Added Author Hemenway, Robert, 1921-
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
ISBN 0374109605: $22.50
9780374109608
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