Dec 31, 2009
Much of Elizabeth Bishop’s work is informed by a childhood of dislocation and loneliness. Fatherless at eight months of age, Bishop and her widowed mother moved from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia. When Bishop was four, her mother was permanently institutionalized after several nervous breakdowns, and Bishop never saw her again. After a brief, unhappy stay with her father’s family, she was placed in her aunt’s care in Boston. Thus travel and identity as a guest are two of Bishop’s most persistent metaphors.
After graduation from Vassar College,...
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