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Scoop.it!
Colm Tóibín assembles Elizabeth Bishop’s story from correspondence and poems, and fuses it into a narrative that draws unexpected comparisons between Bishop and writers like James Joyce. 
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Scoop.it!
After a rocky first meeting, the two became friends. Colm Toíbín traces the similarities in their outlook and describes how, by virtue of their poems, they both moved from self-effacement into the light
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Scoop.it!
In 1975, a Miss Pierson wrote to the US poet Elizabeth Bishop for advice. Bishop bothered to reply partly because Pierson had enclosed an SAE but also because she, too, thought poetry g
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