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Elizabeth Bishop: Insomnia

By the Universe deserted,
she’d tell it to go to hell,
and she’d find a body of water,
or a mirror, on which to dwell.

March 21, 2025 · 10 Comments

Sandra McPherson: For Elizabeth Bishop

The child I left your class to have   Later had a habit of sleeping   With her arms around a globeShe’d unscrewed, dropped, and dented.I always felt she could possess it,   The pink countries and the … Continue reading

February 25, 2019 · Leave a comment

Joan E. Bauer: Lowell & Bishop — Letters from the Road

The robins are shrieking as they do before a storm she wrote Lowell who wanted to marry her,   but she knew better. Come to Yaddo, he wrote. There’s a … Continue reading

April 5, 2017 · 4 Comments

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