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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, [...]

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Bishop’s “One Art”

Thursday, October 13th, 2005
I’ve finished all of Elizabeth Bishop’s poems except for her translations, which I’ll discuss later, and there are surprisingly few poems I’ve marked as ones I really like, five, to be exact. Judging from the poems I do like, which include several that are often anthologized, like “The Armadillo” and “First Death In Nova [...]

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Bishop Translates Paz’s “January First”

Friday, October 21st, 2005
I was disappointed to discover that I liked very few of Bishop’s translations, but perhaps shouldn’t have been considering that I generally don’t like her style of poetry and it seems only natural that she would translate poems in the style she admires. Nevertheless, I was quite taken with Bishop’s translation of Octavio Paz’s “January [...]

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