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