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Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It

by Brett C. Millier, Elizabeth Bishop · 1992

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Traces the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, discusses her major poems, and looks at how events in her life influenced her writing

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adult
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epic · 602 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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