On Elizabeth Bishop (Writers on Writers Book 7) by Colm Tóibín (PDF)

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A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today’s most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences—the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers interested in both Bishop and Tóibín.For Tóibín, the secret of Bishop’s emotional power is in what she leaves unsaid. Exploring Bishop’s famous attention to detail, Tóibín describes how Bishop is able to convey great emotion indirectly, through precise descriptions of particular settings, objects, and events. He examines how Bishop’s attachment to the Nova Scotia of her childhood, despite her later life in Key West and Brazil, is related to her early loss of her parents—and how this connection finds echoes in Tóibín’s life as an Irish writer who has lived in Barcelona, New York, and elsewhere.Beautifully written and skillfully blending biography, literary appreciation, and descriptions of Tóibín’s travels to Bishop’s Nova Scotia, Key West, and Brazil, On Elizabeth Bishop provides a fresh and memorable look at a beloved poet even as it gives us a window into the mind of one of today’s most acclaimed novelists.

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⭐As a study of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, Colm Toibin’s On Elizabeth Bishop has too much of the academic parsing and cross-referencing that has never been this reader’s cup of tea. This is regrettable, because when Toibin gets away from that and is just writing, he can get things so satisfyingly right. Readers (bless them) who have the inclination to collect favorite paragraphs or sentences will surely admire the opening paragraph of the chapter called “Order and Disorder in Key West,” a title I assume is meant to call Wallace Stevens to mind:“Some days in Key West, the military jets shot across the blue sky over the sea; it felt as though the windows would break. It was hard not to forget that at that time America was still at war, hard not to forget that it was preparing its systems for future wars. It was January 2013. In the morning the light came all soft liquid, like something fragile rising and spreading, then becoming richer. In the streets, roosters moved freely and easily. From their perspective, if they just looked down or straight ahead, Key West belonged to them. Theirs was the first sound of the day, their cries often coming before the first light appeared.”

⭐You just know that when you read Toibin on Bishop, that you are in for a treat. — A sensitive study, poetic in its own right, and moving in its attentive handling. Essential reading for all lovers of Bishop’s poetry.

⭐For readers familiar with the work of Colm Toibin and Elizabeth Bishop, this restrained, elegant and insightful book reads as if they are talking to each other. Toibin is a deep admirer of Bishop’s poems. In On Elizabeth Bishop he deftly locates the best of them inside her restless, crisis-strewn life and in the faintly exotic places—Nova Scotia, Key West, Brazil—where many of them were written. Toibin, like Bishop, is a polished stylist. He loves the surfaces of Bishop’s poems and he writes forcefully about her technical skills before he taking us, as he does in his novels, toward the darker, inchoate aspects of what’s waiting for us underneath. On Elizabeth Bishop is a poised, indispensible and inspiring conversation with a kindred spirit

⭐This reflection, meditation, discussion, what? of Elizabeth Bishop is fine, eloquent. It is no introduction to the brilliant poet’s work and it helps to have some familiarity with the poetry, and even the bios, of Bishop, Thom Gunn, Robert Lowell, and Marianne Moore.if you don’t, it might mean less, but might also spur the reader to do some further reading.

⭐With insight and sensitivity Toibin discusses Bishop and her poems. Her relationship with Lowell and others is central to the story.

⭐I’m really happy for this opportunity to reflect on Elizabeth Bishop and her art. Colm Toibin treats the subject with care, respect, and insight. It’s a beautiful addition to the Elizabeth Bishop scholarship.

⭐This is an elegantly written reflection of the work and impact of Elizabeth Bishop’s work on Colm Tóibín the man and the artist: A real writer’s memoir for writers. I deeply enjoyed it!

⭐Highly recommended for those who care about language, and the artists whose lives are steeped in it.Three more words? Take five!

⭐I love the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. This is a wonderful introduction from one of my favourite authors. Lyrical and thoughtful.

⭐Very clever comments with cleverly selected excerpts from poems

⭐very good

⭐Lovely and enlightening book

⭐Excellent

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