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My haul from the Changing Hands New Years Day sale.Kitty book is a gift for mom,she‘s not on Litsy!

“One Art” is one of my favorite poems ever, and Elizabeth Bishop was a fascinating author in so many respects. I really enjoyed this biography and would heartily recommend it to any Bishop fan.

#TBRtemptation post! Marshall tells the biography of former friend & iconic poet, Bishop. Using never-seen documents--letters to her psychiatrist & her lovers--new insights are related into the shy & reclusive poet. Before her death in 1979, she only published 100 poems, but they have been among the most influential modern poems. Living in Key West & Brazil, she maintained close friendships with other literary giants. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Since reading Elizabeth Bishop‘s poems as a teenager, I‘ve always enjoyed my encounters with her work, but felt the poet was inscrutable, always at arm‘s length, despite the fact that I live in the city where she was born and where she‘s buried. I don‘t feel that way anymore, thanks to Megan Marshall‘s Elizabeth Bishop: Miracle for Breakfast,* a smooth-reading, revelatory new biography of one of the twentieth century‘s best and most private poets.

Can't wait to dip into this new biography of Elizabeth Bishop! It's a short party for me tonight, but still happy to be at the #litsypartyofone!