Poems

Poems

By Elizabeth Bishop

Pages

368

Rating

4.20

Year

1990

FictionPoetryClassicsAmerican20Th CenturyLiterature

Description

Bishop’s poems combine humor and sadness, pain and acceptance, and observe nature and lives in perfect miniaturist close-up. The themes central to her poetry are geography and landscape—from New England, where she grew up, to Brazil and Florida, where she later lived—human connection with the natural world, questions of knowledge and perception, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.

Endorsements

Best Poetry Book of 2011 — Boston Globe