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  • Pub. Date: April 1984
  • 287pp
  • Sales Rank: 52,223

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    • Pub. Date: April 1984
    • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Format: Paperback, 287pp
    • Sales Rank: 52,223

    Synopsis

    Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. The Complete Poems includes the books North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III, as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia.

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    "From the moment Miss Bishop appeared on the scene it was apparent that she was a poet of . . . great gifts." The New York Times Book Review

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    The modern American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Nation Book Critics' Circle Award, and many other distinctions and accolades for her work.

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    December 29, 2004: The conflicting inner struggle between right and wrong,is a central theme that could be infused in our everyday life. Elizabeth Bishop does a great job in humanizing her exile through a number of receptive impressions. Which is quite an effective method that poets use to intensify the reading. Her Poetry is though-provoking, and their meaning will have a great impact on life.