Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography - Hardcover

Fountain, Gary; Brazeau, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870239368 ISBN 13: 9780870239366

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994

Synopsis

"Amply succeeds in what it proposes to do: It offers an intimate view of Bishop's desperate and lonely life, as that life was observed by those who were there at the time -- and those observers are a particularly perceptive and articulate lot". -- New York Times Book Review

About this title

Synopsis:

This volume presents over 120 interviews with relatives, friends, colleagues and students of the award-winning poet, Elizabeth Bishop. To these is added a second stream of narrative, based on extensive research in Bishop's published and unpublished writings.

About the Author:

Gary Fountain is chair of the English department at Miss Porter's School. The late Peter Brazeau was author of Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0870239368
• ISBN 13: 9780870239366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432