Archive for October 11th, 2005

Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
I’ve been struggling through the first eighty-four pages of Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems 1927-1979 and finding it impossible to identify with most of the poems as they are long, detailed examinations of ordinary, everyday situations which seem to lead nowhere. While it is remarkable that someone actually pays such close attention to everyday settings, [...]