This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets recognised today as a master of her art & acclaimed by poets & readers alike Her poems display honesty & humour grief & acceptance observing nature & human nature with painstaking accuracy They often start outwardly with geography & landscape
- from New England & Nova Scotia where Bishop grew up to Florida & Brazil where she later lived
- & move inexorably toward the interior exploring questions of knowledge & perception love & solitude & the ability or inability of form to control chaos This new edition edited by Saskia Hamilton
Includes:: Bishop's four published volumes (North & South A Cold Spring Questions of Travel & Geography III) as well as uncollected poems translations & an illuminating selection of unpublished manuscript poems reproduced in facsimile revealing exactly how finished or unfinished Bishop left them It offers readers the opportunity to enjoy the complete poems of one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century