Bishop, Elizabeth

New York. 1994. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0374226407. Selected & Edited by Robert Giroux. 668 pages. hardcover. The cover shows a watercolor of flowers drawn by Elizabeth Bishop. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. keywords: Literature Women America Poetry Letters. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Robert Lowell once remarked, ‘When Elizabeth Bishop's letters are published (as they will be), she will be recognized as not only one of the best, but one of the most prolific writers of our century.' ONE ART is the magnificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written by Bishop over fifty years - from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux, the poet's longtime friend and editor, has selected over five hundred missives for this volume. In a way, the letters comprise Bishop's autobiography, and Giroux has greatly enhanced them with his own detailed, candid, and highly informative introduction. ONE ART takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, fully displaying the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great artist. inventory #24826 ISBN: 0374226407.