Book · 1979 · Nonfiction

Poems

Name: Poems
Author: Elizabeth Bishop

Farrar Straus Giroux (Macmillan) · 352 pages

★ 7.8 editorial score

Bishop looks at a fish, a filling station, a moose in the road, and never tells you what to feel. In "One Art" she calls losing things an art you can master.

Genre

Lyric poetry Modernism

Medium

Poetry

Subject

Loss Travel Memory Geography

Time

1979Depicts 20th century

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