Bücher von Elizabeth Bishop

I sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.-with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor," Elizabeth Bishop said upon learning a friend landed a job at The New Yorker in the early 1950s. From 1933 until her death in 1979, Bishop published the vast majority of her poems in the magazine's pages. During those forty years, hundreds of letters passed between Bishop and her editors, Charles Pearce, Katharine White, and Howard Moss. In these letters Bishop discussed the ideas and inspiration for her poems and shared news about her travels, while her editors offered support, commentary, and friendship. Their correspondence provides an unparalleled look into Bishop's writing process, the relationship between a poet and her editors, the internal workings of The New Yorker, and the process of publishing a poem, giving us a rare glimpse into the artistic development of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.

From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies.This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved Bishop to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions.

Die amerikanische Lyrikerin Elizabeth Bishop ist hierzulande noch wenig bekannt. Sie war eine ruhelose Seele: Ohne Eltern aufgewachsen, reiste sie von Neuschottland nach Florida, und von dort weiter nach Brasilien. Die einzige Heimat, die sie fand, war die Sprache. Die verblüffenden Bilderwelten ihrer Gedichte ziehen den Leser in den Bann: traumhafte Eisberge und phantastische Landkarten, aber auch Unkraut, das sich in einem Herzen einnistet. Traurigkeit und Genauigkeit, Sehnsucht und Strenge - Bishops Wortkunst hat die Zeit überdauert. Sie kann nun in einer umfassenden zweisprachigen Ausgabe, in der glänzenden Übersetzung von Steffen Popp, bewundert werden.

In Elizabeth Bishops (1911-1979) Gedichten findet die große Welt in der kleinen ihren stärksten Ausdruck: in Gleichnissen oder genauestens beschriebenen Naturphänomenen. Bishop lebte für die damalige Zeit unkonventionell, ihre eigene Liebesgeschichte wurde in "Die Poetin" (dt. 2014) verfilmt.

Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance offers a series of writings and images to make theory walk, recasting major post-structural and deconstructive thought in order to explore spheres of action in the educational, the sociopolitical, the ethical, the aesthetic and the academic.

Brings together almost all of the known interviews Elizabeth Bishop gave over a period of thirty years. Included also are a few selected pieces based on conversations with her. All together they allow her ardent and admiring readers a rewarding, close-up encounter with one of America's great writers.

Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City and offers insight into conducting literacy work to promote positive youth and community development.