This collection showcases the remarkable poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, celebrated for her emotional depth and formal precision. It includes all her published works, unpublished poems, translations, and a selection of her prose and letters, offering a comprehensive view of her literary legacy and influence in American poetry.
Zweisprachige Ausgabe
Die amerikanische Lyrikerin Elizabeth Bishop ist hierzulande noch wenig bekannt. Sie war eine ruhelose Seele: Ohne Eltern aufgewachsen, reiste sie von Neuschottland nach Florida, und von dort weiter nach Brasilien. Die einzige Heimat, die sie fand, war die Sprache. Die verblüffenden Bilderwelten ihrer Gedichte ziehen den Leser in den Bann: traumhafte Eisberge und phantastische Landkarten, aber auch Unkraut, das sich in einem Herzen einnistet. Traurigkeit und Genauigkeit, Sehnsucht und Strenge – Bishops Wortkunst hat die Zeit überdauert. Sie kann nun in einer umfassenden zweisprachigen Ausgabe, in der glänzenden Übersetzung von Steffen Popp, bewundert werden.
Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't want to be seen as a "woman poet." In 1977, two years before her death she wrote, "art is art and to separate writings, paintings, musical compositions, etc., into two sexes is to emphasize values in them that are not art." She also deeply distrusted the dominant mode of modern poetry, one practiced with such detached passion by her friend Robert Lowell, the confessional. Bishop was unforgiving of fashion and limited ways of seeing and feeling, but cast an even more trenchant eye on her own work. One wishes this volume were thicker, though the perfections within mark the rightness of her approach. The poems are sublimely controlled, fraught with word play, fierce moral vision (see her caustic ballad on Ezra Pound, "Visits to St. Elizabeths"), and reticence. From the surreal sorrow of the early "Man-Moth" (leaping off from a typo she had come across for "mammoth"), about a lonely monster who rarely emerges from "the pale subways of cement he calls his home," to the beauty of her villanelle "One Art" (with its repeated "the art of losing isn't hard to master"), the poet wittily explores distance and desolation, separation and sorrow.
Conscious Ten Ways to Reclaim Your Calling, Move beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference without Sacrificing Yourself will help all types of service providers understand and move beyond burnout and compassion fatigue while discovering a renewed energy for serving others. Each of us can learn how to thrive and find fulfillment in our vocations as we make a positive difference in our homes, workplaces, and communities.Using everyday examples, personal stories, and illuminating questions, Elizabeth Bishop invites us to reimagine how we think about, train for, and embody service. Blurring the line between the traditional and the alternative with expertly chosen spiritual and self-help insights, Conscious Ten Ways to Reclaim Your Calling, Move beyond Burnout, and Make a Difference without Sacrificing Yourself offers pragmatic and inspiring guidance for service providers and the people responsible for the systems and structures through which service is delivered. Even if serving others isn’t the core focus of their vocation, readers will discover keys to avoiding compassion fatigue, feeling better, living with purpose, and contributing with impact.
The collection features nearly all known interviews with Elizabeth Bishop spanning three decades, along with selected conversations. Readers gain an intimate glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of this esteemed American writer, enhancing their understanding of her literary contributions and personal insights.
Elizabeth Bishop's prose is not nearly as well known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories are often on the borderline of memoir, and vice versa. From her college days, she could find the most astonishing yet thoroughly apt metaphors to illuminate her ideas. This volume—edited by the poet, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic, and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz—includes virtually all her published shorter prose pieces and a number of prose works not published until after her death. Here are her famous as well as her lesser-known stories, crucial memoirs, literary and travel essays, book reviews, and—for the first time—her original draft of Brazil, the Time/Life volume she repudiated in its published version, and the correspondence between Bishop and the poet Anne Stevenson, the author of the first book-length volume devoted to Bishop.
Exploring the creative process of Elizabeth Bishop, this collection showcases poems from her notebooks that span various themes and styles, including her fascination with Elizabethan verse and surrealism. It features love poems, dream fragments from the 1940s, and reflections on her Canadian childhood. Alongside these works are facsimiles of her original notebook pages, offering a glimpse into the poet's extensive drafts and fragmentary compositions that have largely remained within the realm of biographical and critical analysis.
A 25th anniversary edition of a book cited by Modern Language Journal as "notable for the original and interesting choice of poems and for the accuracy and poetic quality of the translations." Work by 14 Brazilian poets, including the late Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, is presented en face with translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Ashley Brown, Jane Cooper, Richard Eberhart, Barbara Howes, June Jordan, Galway Kinnell, Jean Longland, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Louis Simpson, Mark Strand, Jean Valentine, Richard Wilbur, and James Wright. Selected by Books for College Libraries (1988).
Before becoming a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, Elizabeth Bishop lived with her Gammie and Pa, learning to walk, read, and write.
Offering a unique glimpse into the inner musings of a prominent twentieth-century American writer, this book explores the complexities of creativity, personal struggles, and the artistic process. It reveals the profound insights and reflections that shaped the writer's work and legacy, providing readers with an intimate understanding of their literary journey.