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Author Travisano, Thomas, 1951- author.

Title Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop / Thomas Travisano.

Publication Info. [New York, New York] : Viking, [2019]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 BISHOP    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B BISHOP    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B BISHOP, ELIZABETH    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO BISHOP    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B BISHOP    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  B BISHOP    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B BISHOP    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B BISHOP ELIZABETH T    Check Shelf
Description 422 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-409) and index.
Summary "Poets of the twentieth century Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that 'Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known.' This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love Unknown, Thomas Travisano, founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society, tells the story of the famous poet and traveler's life. Bishop moved through extraordinary mid-twentieth century worlds with relationships among an extensive international array of literati, visual artists, musicians, scholars, and politicians--along with a cosmopolitan gay underground that was then nearly invisible to the dominant culture. Drawing on fresh interviews and newly discovered manuscript materials, Travisano illuminates that the 'art of losing' that Bishop celebrated with such poignant irony in her poem 'One Art'--perhaps her most famous--was linked in equal part to an 'art of finding,' Bishop's art and life having been devoted to the sort of encounters and epiphanies that so often appear in her work"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Between two worlds -- The country mouse -- Were we all touched by Midas? -- Wading in the mud of the celestial gardens -- Walnut Hill -- Con spirito -- This strange world of travel -- The state with the prettiest name -- As our kisses are changing -- The prodigal -- Too many waterfalls -- Samambaia -- "O PrĂªmio Pulitzer!" -- Apartment in Leme -- No coffee can wake you -- Breakfast song -- The rainbow-bird -- Coda : all the untidy activity continues.
Subject Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979. (OCoLC)fst00034751
Women poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01178325
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Other Form: Online version: Travisano, Thomas J., 1951- Love unknown. : [New York, New York] : Viking, [2019] 9780698191624 (DLC) 2019980677
ISBN 9780525428817 (hardcover)
052542881X (hardcover)
9780698191624 (ebook)
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