Elizabeth Bishop

"This poetic evocation of spirit is part of a controlled semiotics ultimately contrasting with the force of a wind that can suddenly blow through a field, changing everything in an instant. The flowing of the wind of spirit can surrender a harvest consisting of many days or even a few days whereby we can enjoy the sound of the wind and the soughing touch of the wind on the body. While the wind of spirit may know how to touch us, perhaps we will never...

"These recent poems by Elizabeth Martina Bishop merge plot-lines of story poem with the crescendo offered by the lyric narrative. Each poem has a mystical quality and evidences a search for the ineffable and inexpressible in language fraught with imagery, metaphor and allusion. Enjoy the latest volume which contains poems about family, poems about work, and poems about every day existence of an elder living in community with other artists interested...

"Here is a smorgasbord of poetry. The offerings here represent a compendium of old and new works written within the last five years. All are from the inspired works of poet Elizabeth Martina Bishop who has been writing since the age of seven years old. Many of the poems selected here can lend readers a collage of witness extending the extemporaneous aspects of her works that range from lyric to narrative poems. Some of the poems deliberately offer...

"Canaries have symbolized the healing properties of the sun. Many folk cultures feature the canary as a Rosocrucian dream image showing the canary hovering above a rose. In this narrative poem the canary operates as a fixture, a landmark, leading the dreamer in a journey celebrating life, birth and death."--Back cover.

"Bishop's poems in this volume include multiple projections of dark and light embedded in mirrors operating within the inner realms as transcendent reminders of the possibility of the exploration of body mind and spirit. Her poems range from transcendent images that spin and astonish with a luminous enjoyment of the senses. It is a kind of slam poetry that is more charming than what one at first thinks of. It is not easy hallmark card kind of poetry....

"A mysterious and poignant exploration of poetic memoir to deepen an awareness of who we are and where we are headed. In days of uncertainty we find our footing. We find poetry in an urban coming of age story. How does one interpret life events that seem in old age to have a dream-like quality? In any event it is up to each individual to transmute and transform seemingly meaningless events. Eventually, we find out we are wordsmiths who must take the...

"These poems were written during a cold spell. Winter descended and Fall suddenly ended. As a reader, you are holding in your hand poems that reflect that post-postpartum feeling reflected in the descent of a sudden cold snap. You can no longer wear a light summer coat. You have to bundle up to stay warm. The tenor of the poems is more intense and some poems are pleading with the goddess for better weather ahead. Instead, storm fronts are moving in...

Elizabeth Bishop is one of America's greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike. The poems that make up Bishop's small and select body of work display honesty and humor, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. Her poems often start outwardly, with geography and landscape--from New England and Nova Scotia, where she grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived--...