Elizabeth Bishop
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Elizabeth Bishop

A Miracle for Breakfast

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Elizabeth Bishop

A Miracle for Breakfast

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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. "A shapely experiment, mixing memoir with biography…[Elizabeth Bishop] fuses sympathy with intelligence, sending us back to Bishop's marvelous poems."— The Wall Street Journal


"Marshall is a skilled reader who points out the telling echoes between Bishop's published and private writing. Her account is enriched by a cache of revelatory, recently discovered documents…Marshall's narrative is smooth and brisk: an impressive feat."— The New York Times Book Review

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Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9780544618428
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. October 21, 1979: Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard
  7. BALCONY
  8. April 29, 1975: Ninth-Floor Conference Room, Holyoke Center
  9. CRUMB
  10. October 5, 1976: Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
  11. COFFEE
  12. January 12, 1977: 437 Lewis Wharf, Boston
  13. RIVER
  14. Spring 1977: Pusey Library, Harvard Yard
  15. MIRACLE
  16. June 14, 1977: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall
  17. SUN
  18. Envoy
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. Text Permissions
  23. Illustration Credits
  24. Sample Chapter from MARGARET FULLER
  25. Buy the Book
  26. Read More from Megan Marshall
  27. About the Author
  28. Connect with HMH