Book Reviews: March 2008 Archives
You love everything written by Elizabeth Bishop. You own all the Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux editions, the trusty coral-colored Poems, the sea-foam-green Prose, and the Bible-sized Letters. You've got the tizzy-causing uncollected, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box. But you want some new books, too, and your bookshelf is stuffed. Enter Library of America, to the rescue! Their ELIZABETH BISHOP: Poems, Prose, and Letters was released on Valentine's Day, for you. This is the iPod of Bishop books, nearly a thousand pages, but only a quarter-inch thicker than the Complete Poems, thanks to LoA's ultra-lightweight paper and dense, yet easy-to-read page layout. It has only a selection of the letters, true, but it does have this unlikely one to T.C. Wilson from 1938:
"I like Key West more and more. In the 1st place we have been gambling at Sloppy Joe's and winning-- L., $35, me, $22. And then we have been invited to a real cocktail party-- all the water-colorists, ichthyologists, etc., etc., and a man who sold a story to Esquire a while ago, etc.
"I like Key West more and more. In the 1st place we have been gambling at Sloppy Joe's and winning-- L., $35, me, $22. And then we have been invited to a real cocktail party-- all the water-colorists, ichthyologists, etc., etc., and a man who sold a story to Esquire a while ago, etc.
Continue reading Elizabeth Bishop Has Slimmed Down.
Littoral is the year-round online voice of the Key West Literary Seminar. We write about literature, about Key West, and especially about the authors who have been or will be part of our annual Seminar. Throughout the year on Littoral, you'll find podcasts from our growing audio archives, interviews, book reviews, news about the Seminar, links, commentary, and arcana. To submit a post or idea, to ask a question, please email our editor, Arlo Haskell: arlohaskell at gmail dot com.
www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called New Voices 2008. Make your own badge here.
