{"product_id":"love-unknown-the-life-and-worlds-of-elizabeth-bishop-9780143111283","title":"Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLove Unknown \u003c\/i\u003epoints 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.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elizabeth 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, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In \u003ci\u003eLove Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Travisano, founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society, tells the story of the famous poet and traveler's life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bishop moved through extraordinary mid-twentieth century worlds with relationships among an extensive international array of literati, visual artists, musicians, scholars, and politicians--along with a cosmopolitan gay underground that was then nearly invisible to the dominant culture. Drawing on fresh interviews and newly discovered manuscript materials, Travisano illuminates that the \"art of losing\" that Bishop celebrated with such poignant irony in her poem, \"One Art,\" perhaps her most famous, was linked in equal part to an \"art of\u003ci\u003e finding\u003c\/i\u003e,\" that Bishop's art and life was devoted to the sort of encounters and epiphanies that so often appear in her work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Travisano \u003c\/b\u003eis the founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society and the author of \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMidcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman.\u003c\/i\u003e He is principal editor of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eWords in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell\u003c\/i\u003e and served as co-editor of \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century \u003c\/i\u003eand the three-volume \u003ci\u003eNew Anthology of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. Travisano's work on \u003ci\u003eLove Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. He is Emeritus Professor of English at Hartwick College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50860549570834,"sku":"9780143111283","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0dc82b7-d4f3-4c13-915f-8f52b9114de3.jpg?v=1737576998","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-unknown-the-life-and-worlds-of-elizabeth-bishop-9780143111283","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}