{"product_id":"9780691271040","title":"On Elizabeth Bishop","description":"Author: Colm Tibn\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691271040\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jun 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, novelist Colm Tibn offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences  the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tibn creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers interested in both Bishop and Tibn. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Tibn, the secret of Bishop's emotional power is in what she leaves unsaid. Exploring Bishop's famous attention to detail, Tibn describes how Bishop is able to convey great emotion indirectly, through precise descriptions of particular settings, objects, and events. He examines how Bishop's attachment to the Nova Scotia of her childhood, despite her later life in Key West and Brazil, is related to her early loss of her parents  and how this connection finds echoes in Tibn's life as an Irish writer who has lived in Barcelona, New York, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and skillfully blending biography, literary appreciation, and descriptions of Toibin's travels to Bishop's Nova Scotia, Key West, and Brazil, \u003ci\u003eOn Elizabeth Bishop \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a fresh and memorable look at a beloved poet even as it gives us a window into the mind of one of today's most acclaimed novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46803905052830,"sku":"ADS-9780691271040","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691271040.jpg?v=1778207018","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691271040","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}