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Words In Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop And Robert Lowell (2000)

by Elizabeth Bishop(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0374185433 (ISBN13: 9780374185435)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: I'm only about 50 pages in, and already I'm hooked on the letters between these two marvelous poets. For anyone interested in either Bishop and Lowell (or both poets') poems OR for fans of literary correspondence, you can't do much better than this compendium of over thirty years of notes and discussions of travels, life, love, love-gone-away, and the writing life. The introduction is also fascinatingly in-depth and well worth at least a perusal.
review 2: I had forgotten this until I came across a note to myself - "quote EB [Elizabeth Bishop:] on Natty Bumppo." Well, I can't now find the quote, but this is a marvelous narrative of the on-again, off-again relationship between our two greatest anti-Communist poets who were, essentially, romantically in love w... moreith one another without being sexually attracted. It's pure bliss - and if you read it please tell me what EB DID say about Natty Bumppo. less

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