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[edit] Image
An image of some sort would be nice -- does anyone know of any? JKillah 00:35, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
There is one at http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/English_Literature/us_poetry/Bishop/index.html#ereview courtesy of The Acadamy of American Poets (http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/ebishfst.htm). Not sure about the copyright issues of useing the photo. ChristineD 19:48, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Some material?
Should maybe some poems or at least links to poems be placed here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.71.12.236 (talk • contribs).
One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
-- Elizabeth Bishop
[edit] References, Subjectivity, etc.
Informing the public that Louise Crane was Bishop's "first lover" seems a bit odd for encylcopedia article. Where is the reference? Where is the relevance? Some other bits that strike me as too interpretative for an encylcopedia article:
"Randall Jarrell — then the most important poetry critic in America " Jarrell has his own Wikipedia entry, so we should link to that and leave the interpretation to the reader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Jarrell
"she fell in love "
"Careful reading of her work, however, reveals a sharp confessional edge: her life story is told through poems which, though nominally addressing and describing other subject matter, including paintings and tourist destinations, in fact speak to true events (and to her, and the reader's, underlying existential states)."
"Bishop's corpus of published poetry is somewhat smaller than that of her contemporaries. This was the result of her perfectionism, however, rather than a lack of offers to print her work. Although her Complete Poems is a relatively slim volume, the quality of the poems and their continuing influence have far exceeded the book's length."
I propose the changes listed above. discussion? Bsharvy 02:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- I'll defend at least the third comment: Bishop was not a Confessionalist in the full-throated manner of Lowell or Berryman or Plath, but her poetry does contain a great number of biographical details and references, some of them elegantly disguised. Though Bishop was a private person, much was revealed to the general public after the posthumous publication of her letters. The poem "One Art" is far more poignant once you know about her mother's insanity and early institutionalization, for example, and about Bishop's years in Key West and Brazil. So I propose you keep that, or modify it accordingly (with my words, if you like) to reflect the character of Bishop's work.
- Also, while it is true that her Collected Poems is a "relatively slim volume," I think the rest of that fourth paragraph is defensive. Bishop has nothing to apologize for. Sandover 03:32, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
