Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell | 
 enlarge | Authors: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell
Creators: Thomas Travisano, Saskia Hamilton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2532
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 928
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.9
ISBN: 0374185433
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780374185435
ASIN: 0374185433
Publication Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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DIVRobert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that #8220;you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.#8221; The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling #8220;picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,#8221; and she once begged him, #8220;Please never stop writing me letters#8212;they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I#8217;ve been re-reading Emerson) for several days.#8221; Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell#8217;s death in 1977. The substantial, revealing#8212;and often very funny#8212;interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America#8217;s most beloved and influential poets./DIV
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Love of Poetry November 2, 2008
C. Hutton (East Coast, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This correspondence is one long (nearly a thousand pages) love letter between two of the best poets of their generation. Both Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were personally tortured by their demons (her was alcohol, his was manic-depression) and failed relationships. Though never lovers, their's was a marriage of the minds via the mail for thirty years. It is helpful, though not vital, that the reader be acquainted with their poetry -- the letters have more meaning and one can understand the fuss they had with their written creations. This definiative collection of their letters is a biography of their adult lives.
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