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  • The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon

    by Thomas Travisano ...
    The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon collects Thomas Travisano’s enlightening essays about the poet and her work, written over the course of thirty-plus years. Beginning with the founding of the Elizabeth Bishop Society and moving through work on the editing of her letters and the writing of her biography, Travisano charts the steps by which Bishop ascended from a “good minor poet” to being recognized ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Love Unknown

    The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

    by Thomas Travisano ...
    **An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop"Love Unknown points movingly to the many relationships that moored Bishop, keeping her together even as life—and her own self-destructive tendencies—threatened to split her apart.” —The Wall Street Journal**Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Love Unknown

    The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

    by Thomas Travisano ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth BishopElizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems ... Read more

    $34.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Elizabeth Bishop in the Twenty-First Century

    Reading the New Editions

    Edited by Angus Cleghorn, Bethany Hicok, Thomas Travisano ...
    In recent years, a series of major collections of posthumous writings by Elizabeth Bishop--one of the most widely read and discussed poets of the twentieth century--have been published, profoundly affecting how we look at her life and work. The hundreds of letters, poems, and other writings in these volumes have expanded Bishop‘s published work by well over a thousand pages and placed before the ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Black Beans and Diamonds

    Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop

    Translated by Neil K. Besner ...
    by Regina Przybycien ...
    Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien’s Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational study of the critical and highly productive years from 1951 to 1974 during which the American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived and worked in Brazil.Now available in English for the first time, the book provides Bishop scholars and her steadily growing audience of general readers a ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop

    Edited by Angus Cleghorn, Jonathan Ellis ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognized as one of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. Initially celebrated for the minute detail of her descriptions, what John Ashbery memorably called her 'thinginess', Bishop's reputation has risen dramatically since her death, in part due to the publication of new work, including letters, stories, and visual art, as well as a ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop

    by Anne Stevenson ...
    Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop is a highly illuminating reader's guide written by another leading poet which makes full use of the letters Elizabeth Bishop wrote to Anne Stevenson from Brazil in the 1960s. Anne Stevenson is a major American and British poet who has ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan F. S. Post ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the 90 or so published poems that are at the core of her remarkable canon of verse. Drawing on biographical and critical material, Jonathan Post also makes frequent use of Bishop's letters ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • The Seven Storey Mountain. Illustrated

    by Thomas Merton ...
    The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton is a powerful spiritual autobiography that chronicles the author’s journey from youthful restlessness to monastic life and deep religious commitment. Written with literary elegance and emotional honesty, the book traces Merton’s early years, marked by intellectual searching, artistic ambition, and inner conflict, against the broader backdrop of a world ... Read more

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  • Nazi Literature in the Americas

    by Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
    “Genius . . . [This] is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.” —Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review“Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostNazi Literature in the Americas is Roberto Bolaño’s vertiginous, Borgesian journey into literature’s most abysmal depths. In this mock encyclopedia of imaginary ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Passion for Books

    A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books

    Edited by Harold Rabinowitz, Rob Kaplan ...
    A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity.Booklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of A Passion for Books, beginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's ... Read more

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  • Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As García Márquez's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD