ON ELIZABETH BISHOP

n this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary i nfluencesthe American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid pictu re of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and ex ile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers interested in both Bishop and Tói bín.For T...[Read more]