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Elizabeth Bishop
(February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979 / Worcester, Massachusetts)
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Elizabeth Bishop an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia dedicated to her memory. She is considered one of the most important and distinguished American poets of the 20th century. more >>
 
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''What childishness is it that while there's breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined to rush
to see the sun the other way around?''
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. "Questions of Travel." Bishop, an avid traveler, spent the last 16 years of her life in Brazil.
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''His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,

looking for something, something, something.
Poor bird, he is obsessed!''
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sandpiper (l. 16-18). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Gir...
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Tim Martin (8/23/2009 9:55:00 AM)
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Argh! Webmasters! ...please get that 'a' out of the last line of 'One Art' (right before 'disaster') . Incorrect, and ruins the poem!

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