Book description
This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start…
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1 author picked Poems as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
No one describes the natural world like Elizabeth Bishop does. She writes with clarity about the way humans look at the world and travel through it. Her writing is pungent and economical.
When I want to describe a natural feature or feeling, I sometimes ask myself, “What would Elizabeth Bishop say?”
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