Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2009
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773576100
- Publish Date
- Mar 2009
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description argues that attention to the material realm informs everything Bishop does. Seen through this lens, many familiar topics look remarkably different. Bishop's relationship to travel, epiphany, surrealism, and imagery are all transformed, and a timely new Bishop emerges - one quite different from the postmodern poet that has dominated recent scholarship.
About the author
Zachariah Pickard is assistant professor of language and literature at Bard High School Early College II in New York City.