Books by Elizabeth Bishop
“Here is a relationship the height of whose intimacy was in the letters. You feel that when you read them. I was moved to tears reading some of those letters. There’s an honesty about how difficult it all is. These are incredibly powerful admissions of real closeness.” Read more...
The Best Literary Letter Collections
Lucas Zwirner, Artists & Art Critic
“The work of Elizabeth Bishop is its own world, that has its own mesmerizing power.” Read more...
Elisa New, Literary Scholar
The Complete Poems 1927-1979
by Elizabeth Bishop
She is absolutely true to observed experience and she’s extremely wary of the grand rhetorical gesture. She’s kind of a quiet poet and I think her language is intensely beautiful.
Interviews where books by Elizabeth Bishop were recommended
The best books on Poetry, recommended by Sinéad Morrissey
The award-winning Northern Irish poet reveals why the inimitable Sylvia Plath is not always a good influence on young poets and why sublimation of the self is sometimes better than self-expression
The Best American Poetry, recommended by Elisa New
With the help of a good anthology and a heaping dose of American classics, anyone can be converted to being a lover of poetry. Elisa New, Harvard scholar and host of the PBS series Poetry in America, recommends her favorite American poets, from Emily Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop.
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Letters to a Young Painter
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The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence
by Alice James -
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Letters to Felice
by Franz Kafka -
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Letters: 1925-1975
by Hannah Arendt & Martin Heidegger -
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Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence
by Elizabeth Bishop & Robert Lowell
The Best Literary Letter Collections, recommended by Lucas Zwirner
The Best Literary Letter Collections, recommended by Lucas Zwirner
The next release in the ekphrasis series from David Zwirner Books is Oscar Wilde’s The Critic as Artist, including an introduction by Michael Bracewell and a colour portrait of Wilde by Marlene Dumas. Head of Content Lucas Zwirner talks to Five Books about the inspiration he’s drawn from literary letters and how they inform the editorial direction of the publishing house.
