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Poems | Elizabeth Bishop
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A "Boston Globe" Best Poetry Book of 2011This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as one of the greatest English-language poets of the twentieth century, loved by readers and poets alike. Bishop's poems combine humor and sadness, pain and acceptance, and observe nature and lives in perfect miniaturist close-up. The themes central to her poetry are geography and landscape from New England, where she grew up, to Brazil and Florida, where she later lived human connection with the natural world, questions of knowledge and perception, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos. This new edition offers readers the opportunity to take in, entire, one of the great careers in twentiethcentury poetry."
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Poems | Elizabeth Bishop

The silken water is weaving and weaving,
disappearing under the mist equally in all directions,
lifted and penetrated now and then
by one shag‘s dripping serpent-neck,
and somewhere the mist incorporates the pulse,
rapid but unurgent, of a motorboat.

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Chrissyreadit
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Thank you @shortsarahrose for this delightful #aprilpoetryswap package! Im excited to use the crackers in our vegan charcuterie board tomorrow! I love the book! 😘

TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 3y
shortsarahrose Yay! I am looking forward to opening my package when I get home from work. Also, vegan charcuterie board sounds delish! 😋 3y
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LindaLappin
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In this poem, a long nighttime bus ride through the forlorn villages of Nova Scotia is interrupted by the majestic appearance of a moose.

“a bus journeys west,
the windshield flashing pink,
pink glancing off of metal,
brushing the dented flank
of blue, beat-up enamel...“

#savvysettings day 29 #bus @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#poetrymatters

Eggs 🧡 📚 ❤️ 3y
TheSpineView Great poem! 💜 3y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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TheSpineView 😍 5y
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Chrissyreadit
Poems | Elizabeth Bishop
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Thank you so much @jmofo I love my #favoritepoetswap books! Your wrapping was so much fun. I‘m very excited by your choices! Your package was perfect- columbines are one of my favorite flowers (I live in Denver for an amazing year)- and the journal is gorgeous! The snacks look delicious - 😍and I am excited to explore both poetry books.

LazyDays What a great package! I thought that was Anthony Bourdain for a second!🌠🌠 6y
jmofo @Chrissyreadit I‘m so glad you like it! I hope you enjoy the writing! I‘m glad the snacks are good. Enjoy! 👾 6y
merelybookish Leonard Cohen! ♥️ 6y
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UnabridgedTomes
Poems | Elizabeth Bishop
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The collected works of a poet so talented, she changed the way I think about poetry forever.

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Amyegia
Poems | Elizabeth Bishop
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Then practice losing farther, losing faster

Vanessa Great poem! 8y
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bookculture
Poems | Elizabeth Bishop
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"A cold spring:
the violet was flawed on the lawn.
For two weeks or more the trees hesitated;
the little leaves waited,
carefully indicating their characteristics."

#nationalpoetrymonth

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