Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary
Mark Ford: Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary, 29 November 2007
“... paper A voice is heard ‘coming out of blackness – the blackness all voices come from’: The snow had a crust, they said, like bread – only white – it held me up but it would not hold her she fell through it The black of mourning and the white of the swan create a scene that is the antithesis of Bishop’s many celebrations of the multi-hued – the ... ”