[New-Poetry] Bishop in the biz Journal

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Writer's Block
The Poet as Survivor
By BRAD LEITHAUSER
April 26, 2008; Page W9

Elizabeth Bishop 
Edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz 
The Library of America, 979 pages, $40


In recent years, the splendid American poet Elizabeth Bishop has undergone both a canonization and a demystification. Born in 1911 in Worcester, Mass., she spent much of her childhood in Nova Scotia and much of her adult life in Brazil. Since her death, in Boston in 1979, her already lofty reputation has steadily mounted.

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Elizabeth Bishop: Quiet, modest, startlingly original 
Bishop has been granted literary sainthood partly for reasons that she, always a purist, stoutly insisted were extraneous to poetic evaluation 


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