Follow-the-Leader
Colm Tóibín: Bishop v. Lowell, 14 May 2009
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.
Faber, 875 pp., £40, November 2008,978 0 571 24308 2 Show More
edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.
Faber, 875 pp., £40, November 2008,
“... and the final natural but charged image that gives the poem its conclusion and title.’ As David Kalstone pointed out in Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, however, the poem was not simply a homage to Bishop and her work, but a way of using her tone and then moving away from it, a way of separating himself from her ... ”