Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Saskia Hamilton, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-53236-9
To celebrate the centennial of the birth of Bishop (1911–1979), FSG is releasing three landmark volumes of her writing in one month—new editions of her poems and prose, plus her complete correspondence with her editors at the New Yorker. Poems...
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Elizabeth Bishop, Author, Robert Giroux, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $35 (725p) ISBN 978-0-374-22640-4
This selection of poet Elizabeth Bishop's (1911-1979) letters is, as Giroux observes, a virtual autobiography. And though large, the book contains only a fraction of her correspondence. Among the most interesting letters are those to literary...
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Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Lloyd Schwartz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-53273-4
The most exciting part of the Bishop reissue project may be this volume, which contains all of the prose published in her lifetime, as well as a few hard to find things and a thing or two you won't find anywhere else. As a frequent contributor to...
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Elizabeth Bishop, Author, Alice Quinn, Editor ; edited by Alice Quinn. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $30 (367p) ISBN 978-0-374-14645-0
This book is as much Alice Quinn's as Elizabeth Bishop's. The New Yorker
poetry editor spent countless hours with the 3,500 pages of Bishop (1911–1979) material housed in the Vassar College library, and particularly with two notebooks
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Elizabeth Bishop, Author, Robert Giroux, Selected by, Lloyd Schwartz, Selected by . Library of America $40 (979p) ISBN 978-1-59853-017-9
No further proof is necessary to show that Bishop—still not widely known beyond literary circles at the time of her death in 1979—has, posthumously in the last three decades, become one of America’s most popular 20th-century poets,
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Elizabeth Bishop, Author, William Benton, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $40 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-15090-7
It is not widely known that the poet Elizabeth Bishop was also a painter. ""From time to time I paint a small gouache or watercolor and give them to friends. They are Not Art--NOT AT ALL,"" she declared in 1971. Exchanging Hats collects 30 of Bishop'
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