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Prose / Elizabeth Bishop ; edited by Lloyd Schwartz.

by Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Correspondence.

American prose literature -- 20th century.

Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.

9780374125578 (hc.)

0374125570 (hc.)

9780374532734 (pbk.)

0374532737 (pbk.)

x, 507 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

STORIES AND MEMOIRS -- Baptism -- Sea and Its Shore -- In Prison -- Gregorio Valdes, 1879-1939 -- Mercedes Hospital -- Farmer's Children -- Housekeeper -- Gwendolyn -- In the Village -- Primer Class -- Country Mouse -- U.S.A. School of Writing -- Trip to Vigia -- Efforts of Affection: A Memoir of Marianne Moore -- To the Botequim & Back -- Memories of Uncle Neddy -- BRAZIL -- ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND TRIBUTES -- As We Like It: Miss Moore and the Delight of Imitation -- Review of Annie Allen / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Review of XAIPE: 71 Poems / E. E. Cummings -- Love from Emily -- Review of The Riddle of Emily Dickinson -- What the Young Man Said to the Psalmist -- Manipulation of Mirrors -- Introduction to The Diary of "Helena Morley" -- New Capital, Aldous Huxley, and Some Indians -- "I Was But Just Awake" -- Robert Lowell's Life Studies -- "Writing poetry is an unnatural act ..." -- Some Notes on Robert Lowell -- Sentimental Tribute -- Flannery O'Connor: 1925-1964 -- On the Railroad Named Delight -- Gallery Note for Wesley Wehr -- Inadequate Tribute -- Introduction to An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry -- Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute -- TRANSLATIONS -- From The Diary of "Helena Morley" -- Stories / Clarice Lispector -- Smallest Woman in the World -- Hen -- Marmosets -- CORRESPONDENCE WITH ANNE STEVENSON, 1963-1965 -- APPENDIX: EARLY PROSE -- On Being Alone -- Mouse and Mice -- Thumb -- Then Came the Poor -- From "Time's Andromedas" -- Gerard Manley Hopkins: Notes on Timing in His Poetry -- Last Animal -- Dimensions for a Novel.

Elizabeth Bishop's prose is not as well-known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer, too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories often border on memoir, and vice versa. From her college days, she could find the most astonishing yet thoroughly apt metaphors to illuminate her ideas. This volume--edited by the poet, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz--includes virtually all her published shorter prose pieces and a number of prose works not published until after her death. Included here are her famous as well as her lesser-known stories, crucial memoirs, literary and travel essays, book reviews, and--for the first time--the original draft of Brazil, the Life World Library volume she repudiated in its published version, as well as the relevant correspondence between Bishop and the poet Anne Stevenson while the latter was writing the first book-length critical study of Bishop's work.

Schwartz, Lloyd, 1941-

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