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The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2008
On Sale: November 28, 2008
928 pages
ISBN: 0374185433
EAN: 9780374185435
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that βyou ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.β The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling βpicked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,β and she once begged him, βPlease never stop writing me lettersβthey always manage to make me feel like my higher self (Iβve been re- reading Emerson) for several days.β Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowellβs death in 1977. The substantial, revealingβand often very funnyβ interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of Americaβs most beloved and influential poets.
 Media BuzzAll Things Considered - December 14, 2008
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