Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century--a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse. Yet the dominant biographical/psychoanalytical approach leaves her style relatively untouched--and it is vital that an increasing focus on archival material does not replace our attention to the writing itself. Bishop's verse is often compared with prose (sometimes insultingly); writing fiction, she worried...

This book approaches, for the first time, Elizabeth Bishop's work in multiple genres (her prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose) as a stylistic whole.

The first Western edition of the poetry of the great anglophone poet of postcolonial India, Srinivas Rayaprol.