Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. "A profoundly visual poet, Elizabeth Bishop had a unique prismatic way of seeing. In this finely written companion to the poetry, Bonnie Costello gives a compelling sense of Bishop and her ways of seeing and writing. Drawing on Bishop's unpublished writings- her journals, letters, and manuscripts- to reinforce her interpretations of the poems, Costello demonstrates that Bishop's work portrays both the..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. “Parker places Bishop among her ancestors and contemporaries in American poetry, especially Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Lowell, and further compares her work to the poetry or prose of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and Flannery O’Connor, as well as to some of Bishop’s own translations from Brazilian fiction and poetry. He suggests that Bishop’s writing grows out of an..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1986. First Printing. Softcover. This winter 1986 number of the scholarly literary journal features an essay on William Carlos Williams' poetry by Audrey T. Rogers, appreciations of poet David Ignatow including one by Michigan poet Diane Wakoski, excerpts from Ignatow's notebooks, an article on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop by Carolyn Handa & more. Also reviews of works by Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth &..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. First Printing. Softcover. This spring 1987 number of the respected literary journal features an article on Elizabeth Bishop by James E.B. Breslin, a review of a Leo Connellan work by Robert Peters, a conversation with poet-performer Armand Schwerner, & more. Another fine scholarly collectible in this series, in very fine condition with only mild browning & spotting to spine, browning only at very..... More

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Megan Marshall. "Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet- painfully shy and living out of public view in Key West and Brazil, among other hideaways- she has never been seen so fully as a woman and an artist. Megan Marshall..... More