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On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin (CD-Audio, 2015)

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In this book velist Colm Toibin 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, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a velist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue listeners interested in both Bishop and Toibin. For Toibin, the secret of Bishop's emotional power is in what she leaves unsaid. Exploring Bishop's famous attention to detail, Toibin 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 Toibin's life as an Irish writer who has lived in Barcelona, New York, and elsewhere. Beautifully written and skillfully blending biography, literary appreciation, and descriptions of Toibin's travels to Bishop's Nova Scotia, Key West, and Brazil, On Elizabeth Bishop provides 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 velists.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Audible Studios on Brilliance
ISBN-10
1511323574
ISBN-13
9781511323574
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216672412

Product Key Features

Author
Colm Toibin
Format
CD, MP3 Format
Language
English

Additional Product Features

Running Time
300
Read by
John Keating
Date of Publication
17/11/2015
Subject
Biography: Literary
Imprint
Audible Studios on Brilliance
Country of Publication
United States

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