Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary

Mark Ford

The earliest poem collected in Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box, Alice Quinn’s edition of Elizabeth Bishop’s miscellaneous drafts and fragments, opens:

I introduce Penelope Gwin,
A friend of mine through thick and thin,
Who’s travelled much in foreign parts
Pursuing culture and the arts.
‘And also,’ says Penelope
‘This family life is not for me.
I find it leads to deep depression
And I was born for self expression.’[*]

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[*] Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box was reviewed by Gillian White in the LRB of 25 May 2006.

Vol. 29 No. 23 · 29 November 2007 » Mark Ford » Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary (print version)
Pages 20-22 | 4994 words