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One Art: Letters | Elizabeth Bishop
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Robert Lowell once remarked, "When Elizabeth Bishop's letters are published (as they will be), she will be recognized as not only one of the best, but one of the most prolific writers of our century." One Art is the magificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written by Bishop over fifty yearsfrom 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979Robert Giroux, the poet's longtime friend and editor, has selected over five hundred missives for this volume. In a way, the letters comprise Bishop's autobiography, and Giroux has greatly enhanced them with his own detailed, candid, and highly informative introduction. One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, fully displaying the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great artist.
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BarbaraJean
One Art: Letters | Elizabeth Bishop
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—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.

#QuotsyNov17 #Lost

hermyknee 😍 7y
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Jas16
One Art: Letters | Elizabeth Bishop
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“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”
#quotsynov17

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LauraBeth
One Art: Letters | Elizabeth Bishop
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When you're in the home stretch of reading something like a 200 page essay in The New Yorker about Elizabeth Bishop and in the middle of one of her profound poems is a mouse and maze cartoon — that a cartoonist pretty much phoned in — but you find hysterical because of the brilliant placement of it — and because your sense of humor qualifies as lame 😂

JacqMac 😂😂 7y
BraveNewBooks You are so right, the cartoon is lame but what placement! And I love Elizabeth Bishop, is the article in the latest issue? I'm always 3 months behind on my New Yorkers... 7y
LauraBeth Here's the article @BraveNewBooks - it's from this past March and is about Megan Marshall's new bio - which I just bought after reading this article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/elizabeth-bishops-art-of-losing 7y
LeahBergen 😂 7y
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