{"product_id":"elizabeth-bishop-at-work-9780674660175","title":"Elizabeth Bishop at Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her lifetime Elizabeth Bishop was appreciated as a writer's writer (John Ashbery once called her \"the writer's writer's writer\"). But since her death in 1979 her reputation has grown, and today she is recognized as a major twentieth-century poet. Critics and biographers now habitually praise Bishop's mastery of her art, but all too often they have little to say about how her poetry does its sublime work--in the ear and in the mind's eye. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bishop at Work \u003c\/i\u003eexamines Bishop's art in detail--her diction, syntax, rhythm, and meter, her acute sense of place, and her attention to the natural world. It is also a study of the poet working \u003ci\u003eat \u003c\/i\u003esomething, challenging herself to try new things and to push boundaries. Eleanor Cook traces Bishop's growing confidence and sense of freedom, from her first collection, \u003ci\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/i\u003e, to \u003ci\u003eQuestions of Travel\u003c\/i\u003e, in which she fully realized her poetic powers, to \u003ci\u003eGeography III\u003c\/i\u003e and the breathtaking late poems, which--in individual ways--gather in and extend the poet's earlier work. Cook shows how Bishop shapes each collection, putting to rest the notion that her published volumes are miscellanies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bishop at Work\u003c\/i\u003e is intended for readers and writers as well as teachers. In showing exactly how Bishop's poems work, Cook suggests how we ourselves might become more attentive readers and better writers. Bishop has been compared to Vermeer, and as with his paintings, so with her poems. They create small worlds where every detail matters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCook, Eleanor:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Eleanor Cook is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50326966436114,"sku":"9780674660175","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_200ff1ab-9b21-4761-8e5b-dafcd5b0a0d9.jpg?v=1727707612","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/elizabeth-bishop-at-work-9780674660175","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}