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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast

Megan Marshall

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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast

A biography of the brilliant, award-winning poet by one of her former students, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Margaret Fuller. Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's most revered poets. And yet she has never been fully understood as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop's letters to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known, a secret affair, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares. By alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir, Megan Marshall, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry workshop at Harvard, offers the reader an original and compelling glimpse of the ways poetry and biography, subject and biographer, are entwined.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9780544618428
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Poetry and poetsElizabeth Bishop's lifeLiterary biography

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