About the Book

From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. "Edgar Allen Poe & The Juke-Box" presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies. This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions.

Product Details

Media: Hardcover Book, 367 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (Feb. 28th, 2006)

ISBN-10: 0374146454

ISBN-13: 9780374146450

Dimensions: 6.18 x 9.26 x 1.34 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.54 lbs

• Categories: Canadian Poetry