Research Catalog

Title

Dear Elizabeth : five poems & three letters to Elizabeth Bishop / May Swenson ; afterword by Kirstin Hotelling Zona.

Author

Swenson, May.

Publication

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.

Description

31 pages : facsimiles, portraits; 18 cm

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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 > Poetry
• Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 > Correspondence
• Poets, American > 20th century > Correspondence
• Women poets, American > Correspondence
• Women poets > Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Poems. Her Early Work. From a Letter to Elizabeth Bishop. Dear Elizabeth. Somebody Who's Somebody. In the Bodies of Words -- Letters. August 14, 1958. January 10, 1960. November 14, 1962 -- Afterword. Urged by the "Unknown You": May Swenson and Elizabeth Bishop / Kirsten Hotelling Zona.

ISBN

0874212960

LCCN

00009296

OCLC

• ocm44013845
• SCSB-4050824

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries