Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation about Her Poetry
The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation
of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation about Her Poetry
Saturday, March 16th
2:00 - 3:30PM
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is one of the great masters of American poetry of the 20th Century. Her remarkable gifts have been described in a variety of ways, but one gift repeatedly recognized by readers is her skill at recounting the results of her capacity for observation. As Randall Jarrell remarked in response to her very first book of poems, North & South: "All her poems have written underneath, 'I have seen it.'" Perhaps the following precise and general praise by Howard Moss successfully suggests her specialness: "What Elizabeth Bishop brings to poetry is a new imagination; because of that, she is revolutionary, not 'experimental.' ... Admired by critics, poets, and anyone genuinely interested in writing, her work is not easily labeled.... She is not academic, beat, cooked, raw, formal, informal, metrical, syllabic, or what have you. She is a poet pure and simple who has perfect pitch." Four lovers of the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop-Bonnie Costello, Alice Quinn, Lloyd Schwartz, and Jean Valentine-will discuss what they admire about her poems and read aloud from her work.
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Insightful conversation about a reclusive poet who grows on you with each rereading of her poems. Robert Lowell's "The Skunk Hour" is a sparse but very eloquent tribute to E. Bishop and her shy Muse.
Such an illuminating talk! Loads of thanks to the uploader and the talkers --- allof them are great experts on Bishop. My only regret is that Schowartz speaks too slowyly(though clearly) --- possibly due to his old age, and doesn't give enough time to Bonnie Constello and Alice Quinn. Alice apparently knows almost everything about Bishop and on sever occasions utters the very words that Schowartz meant but didn't manage to roll out.
I enjoyed the debate and discussion. Bishop has been my favourite poet for the last 2 years. I trust that all of you read her wonderful jewels of Geography III (1976).
Thank you!
It was beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Bishop was just fabulous! Only Sylvia Plath's work can be compared to hers... BRAVO!
wonderful thank you
'Shant' (pron 'Shahnt') is used a lot in England.
Elizabeth Bishop danced on the edge of the precipice all her life. Some of her poems are muted notations of the score that offset the choreography of staying alive with interludes of dying.
Adorei muito reflexão sobre as perdas ao longo sa vida
Poetry for the hearts of the world
I believe Jean Valentine is the mother of my former poetry professor, Brooks Haxton. Didn't realise she knew so much about Bishop. Please correct me if I am wrong about her son.
There is a time to listen quietly while drunk.
@stourleykracklite7663
3 жыл бұрын
Bishop might agree.
A "bight" is a small enclosed stretch of water? I don't think so.
poetry my love and hate relationship with you drive me crazy confused words words alpha omega I hate you yet I love you a bitter sweet pain and horror... so ignorant that I hate these effelgence of words and words o oppression of words tyranny yet liberation release suicidal destruction construction.... building blocks ...
That woman who asked the first question and gave herself plug. Ugh
No Deplorables in this room! And that's the more the pity. Poetry shouldn't be just for rich silver haired women of the East Coast. It's for everyone.
I can't take the babble of these people ...sorry. Why don't they just shut up and let the poetry do the talking?
@BardSonic
3 жыл бұрын
Academics are a disgusting breed indeed
Adorei muito reflexão sobre as perdas ao longo sa vida
@abelcisneros7531
3 жыл бұрын
hi we have a similar name! maybe related, I am in texas.