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by Elizabeth Bishop , Robert Giroux

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From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux has selected over five hundred and has written a detailed and informative introduction. "One Art" takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, displaying to the full the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great ... more

     

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      Used Good(1 Copy): The cover may contain minor wear, and the corners may have some light degree of damage. If there are any notes present, they would only be penciled and only visible on a few pages. There are no ink markings of any kind, but there may be a remainder-mark on the outside edge of the pages. Proceeds benefit non-profit Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties. We create solutions to poverty through the businesses we operate. Your purchase creates jobs and transforms liv.
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      Used Very Good(1 Copy): Cynthia Krupat cover Near Fine Book Thick trade paperback. On yellow/white cover: Floral artwork by Bishop. Faint stain mid fore-edge. Indexed. Tight. No names, clean text. Letters to Pearl Kazin, Isabella Gardner, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, et al 13338 shelf.
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      New: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 668 p.
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      Used Very Good(1 Copy): Near Fine in None as Issued jacket Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated (watercolor of flowers by Elizabeth Bishop) soft cover/NF; trace soiling to leading front edges. Frontispiece: James Laughlin photo portrait of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), recipient of the Pultizer for North and South-A Cold Spring (1955). This book is best described as an autobiography/biography through letters. Over some fifty years, Massachusetts born, Vassar educated Elizabeth Bishop wrote several thousand letters. Robert Giroux, her lifelong friend and editor, chose some 500 for this book, that we may know the poet better. Fine copy.
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      About the Book

      From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux has selected over five hundred and has written a detailed and informative introduction. "One Art" takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, displaying to the full the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great poet.

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      • Media: Paperback Book, 668 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (Sep. 30th, 1995)
      • ISBN-10: 0374524459
      • ISBN-13: 9780374524456
      • Dimensions: 6.48 x 9.31 x 1.70 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 1.82 lbs
      • Categories: Literary Biography & Literary Autobiography Literary Collections Letters Poetry Literary Criticism

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