Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop

"Love UnknownÂ points movingly to the many relationships that moored Bishop, keeping her together even as lifeâ€”and her own self-destructive tendenciesâ€”threatened to split her apart.â€ â€”The Wall Street Journal

Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for lifeâ€”and for poetryâ€”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 lettersâ€”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 politiciansâ€”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," that Bishop's art and life was devoted to the sort of encounters and epiphanies that so often appear in her work.
Country USA
Brand Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer Viking
Binding Hardcover
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2019-11-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780525428817

Country	USA
Brand	Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer	Viking
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2019-11-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780525428817

Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

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