Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop is a cross-breed, an innovative formalist whose work always surprises, dead now three decades.

Poetry and Jazz, Strange Bedmates, Sated at Last Con Chapman 2011

Hundreds of other writers have used alcohol to excess, but they also attempted not to drink while writing -- see Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

Peter Brown Hoffmeister: Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers Peter Brown Hoffmeister 2011

It is difficult to resist the temptation to compare, if not the style of poems, then simply the location of Mary Mackey's The Sugar Zone to Elizabeth Bishop's series, Questions of Travel, written during her fifteen years in Brazil.

Joan Gelfand: The Sugar Zone Is Bittersweet Joan Gelfand 2011

To every ironclad principle of aesthetic philosophy there is, of course, an exception—in this case provided by Luciana Souza: The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop and other songs, an album now a decade old, but still fresh in every respect.

Poetry and Jazz, Strange Bedmates, Sated at Last Con Chapman 2011

How much do we love Orla Brady as Elizabeth Bishop?

Watercooler: A Few Questions About Fringe's Flashback 2011

It is difficult to resist the temptation to compare, if not the style of poems, then simply the location of Mary Mackey's The Sugar Zone to Elizabeth Bishop's series, Questions of Travel, written during her fifteen years in Brazil.

Joan Gelfand: The Sugar Zone Is Bittersweet Joan Gelfand 2011

I'm reminded of Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "One Art."

Allison Hill: Books I've Loved and Lost Allison Hill 2011

David Yaffe seems to recognize this distinction, but no sooner has he situated Mr. Dylan squarely in "the canon of singer-songwriters" than he holds him up as the equal of Ginsberg and likens him to John Keats, Elizabeth Bishop and William Blake.

Poet, Prophet and Puzzle David Yezzi 2011

I'm reminded of Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "One Art."

Allison Hill: Books I've Loved and Lost Allison Hill 2011

At her best, as in the chilling Act II "Walküre" scene in which Wotan (Mark Delavan) loses his argument with Fricka (Elizabeth Bishop), Ms. Zambello constructed detailed interactions that delved into character motivation.

Ring Around the Obvious Heidi Waleson 2011