Geography III (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bishop
- First Published: 1976
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Loneliness, Bereavement or grief, Nostalgia, Geography, Buses, Survival
The Work
Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop’s last book of poetry and most autobiographical, is considered by many critics to be her strongest work. The title is derived from a nineteenth century geography primer. Its epigraph, taken from that same text, consists of a series of catechism-like questions designed to teach children basic lessons in geography. The simple questions and answers frame a collection of ten poems in which Bishop explores the nature of nostalgia in shaping the realities of past, present, and future.
Loss and survival is a major theme in...
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