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Dear Elizabeth : five poems & three letters to Elizabeth Bishop / May Swenson ; afterword by Kirstin Hotelling Zona.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3537.W4786 D43 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swenson, May
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Poetry.
- Bishop, Elizabeth.
- Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Correspondence.
- Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
- Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence.
- Poets, American.
- Women poets.
- Women poets, American--Correspondence.
- Women poets, American.
- Women poets--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Poetry.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 31 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Between 1950 and 1979, May Swenson and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged over 260 letters. Their letters have interested scholars of American poetry for the commentary they contain on important work that each poet was publishing at the time, but equally for what these letters reveal about the relationship between the two writers. In Dear Elizabeth, three letters and five poems from Swenson to Bishop, including an unfinished draft never published before, are gathered into one small volume with an insightful essay by scholar and poet Kirstin Hotelling Zona. This brief but intense collection offers a surprising and revealing glimpse of a complicated relationship between two very different women and very different poets, both of whom made unquestionably major contributions to American poetry of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Poems
- Her Early Work 7
- From a Letter to Elizabeth Bishop 8
- Dear Elizabeth 9
- Somebody Who's Somebody 12
- In the Bodies of Words 15
- Letters
- August 14, 1958 18
- January 10, 1960 20
- November 14, 1962 23
- Urged by the "Unknown You": May Swenson and Elizabeth Bishop / Kirstin Hotelling Zona 25.
- Notes:
- "Originally published as Four Poems and a letter to Elizabeth Bishop, Bear River Press, 1997."--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0874212960
- OCLC:
- 44013845
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