[New-Poetry] Elizabeth Bishop’s unpublished poems, reviewed by Mariyn Hacker

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A doubled good read – Elizabeth Bishop’s unpublished poems with lively annotations and notes

Marilyn Hacker’s pleasure in the poems and the fresh insights into Bishop’s way of working
 
  ELIZABETH BISHOP 
Edgar Allen Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments 
Edited and annotated by ALICE QUINN 
Carcanet Press £16.95 


Alice Quinn, the charismatic and sometimes controversial poetry editor of The New Yorker, now Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America as well, has proved herself an impeccable and courageous critic and scholar of modern poetry with the appearance of Edgar Allen Poe and the Juke-Box, her morethan- annotated edition of the unpublished poems of Elizabeth Bishop. 


In the three decades since her death in 1979, the reputation of Elizabeth Bishop as a major American poet has increased in magnitude, even overshadowing that of her friend and coeval Robert Lowell, and eclipsing that of John Berryman, whose work seems now somewhat unjustly ignored by critics, students and general readers. 


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