This is the definitive edition of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognised as one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century, loved by readers and poets alike. This collection includes her four published volumes, fifty uncollected works, and translation of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others. Bishop's poems combine humour 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, ...
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This is the definitive edition of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognised as one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century, loved by readers and poets alike. This collection includes her four published volumes, fifty uncollected works, and translation of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others. Bishop's poems combine humour 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. Her father died when she was one, her mother was committed to a mental hospital when Elizabeth was five, and her life was often psychologically or physically difficult. She was witty and shunned self-pity, but some poems thinly conceal her estrangements as a woman, a lesbian, an orphan, a geographically rootless traveler, a frequently hospitalized asthmatic, and a sufferer of depression and alcoholism. "I'm not interested in big-scale work as such," she once told Lowell. "Something needn't be large to be good." 'When we read her, we enter the classical serenity of a new country,' Robert Lowell. If ever there was a poet whose every scrap of writing should be in print, that poet must be Elizabeth Bishop' Christopher Reid.
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Add this copy of The Complete Poems, Elizabeth Bishop to cart. $15.08, good condition, Sold by Goldstone Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ammanford, CARMS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2002 by Armand Colin.
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Add this copy of Complete Poems to cart. $30.98, good condition, Sold by Literary Cat Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by Chatto & Windus.
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Good+ with no dustjacket. 0701178027. Yellowing as normal for age. Loosely inserted newspaper cutting. Slight wear. Creasing to spine.; This is the definitve edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers. This edition contains her four published volumes (North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel and Geography III), fifty uncollected pieces, and her translations of poems by Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.; 21.5 x 13.5 x 2cm; 287 pages.
Add this copy of The Complete Poems to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Very Good. Later printing. Glossy wrappers. 216pp. Small stain on front wrapper foredge, very good. An important collection, winner of the National Book Award.
Add this copy of Complete Poems to cart. $40.80, fair condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1999 by Chatto & Windus.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 9780701137700.
Add this copy of The Complete Poems to cart. $45.00, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux.
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Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ shows scuffing, chipping, and edgewear. DJ placed into a new archival sleeve. Boards show scuffing. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of The Complete Poems to cart. $45.00, good condition, Sold by The Chatham Bookseller rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Madison, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Very Good- in Good jacket. Octavo. 216pp. Blue cloth. "Elizabeth Bishop" written in black maraker on the bottom edge. Offsetting to the front endpapers. Press release on the book, copy of page from NY Times book review, Jan.14, 1990, "Becoming A Poet" book review. New York Times Obituary Oct.4, 1979, posting her death. Unclipped Yellow, black blue and whitejacket has chips on the lower edge of the panels. This work gathers her poetry of three decades. Included are North and South, a Cold spring and many other works published for the first time.
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Good. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of Complete Poems to cart. $55.12, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Chatto & Windus.
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Add this copy of The Complete Poems to cart. $65.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux,.
