Today, the Wall Street Journal has an in-depth review of The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, published Feb. 1 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Written by Dana Gioia, former chair of the National Endowment of the Arts and recently appointed professor and public culture at the University of Southern California, the article goes far beyond a simple book review and examines Bishop’s place in American letters.
We had a short article here in December 2009 that included one of the poems from The Complete Poems 1927-1079.
Related: The Library of America edition of Bishop’s work.





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We get the Journal but I haven’t read it yet. I’ll look for this article. Thank you.
Gioia wrote an interesting article. I knew Bishop’s output was scant but I didn’t how few poems she’d written. Her relationship with The New Yorker makes for a good story, too. If I recall correctly, all her papers are now at Vassar.
Here’s another good post on the Bishop books:
http://artsfuse.org/?p=22446
For those who can’t get enough of their Bishop, here’s another selection of articles made available by Ed Byrne of Valparaiso Poetry:
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2011/02/celebrating-elizabeth-bishop.html