Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast - Brossura

Marshall, Megan

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ISBN 10: 1328745635 ISBN 13: 9781328745637

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2017

Riassunto

“A shapely experiment, mixing memoir with biography . . . [Elizabeth Bishop] fuses sympathy with intelligence, sending us back to Bishop’s marvelous poems.” — Wall Street Journal
 
Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America’s most revered poets. And yet she has never been fully understood as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop’s letters to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known, a secret affair, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares.
     By alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir, Megan Marshall, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry workshop at Harvard, offers the reader an original and compelling glimpse of the ways poetry and biography, subject and biographer, are entwined.
 
“Marshall is a skilled reader who points out the telling echoes between Bishop’s published and private writing. Her account is enriched by a cache of revelatory, recently discovered documents . . . Marshall’s narrative is smooth and brisk: an impressive feat.” — New York Times Book Review

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Recensione:

For Margaret Fuller: A New American Life 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography 2014 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction "Fuller’s was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshall’s new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . Margaret Fuller is as seductive as it is impressive. It has the grain and emotional amplitude of a serious novel, especially in its first half. It delivers a lovely and bumpy coming-of-age story, one of the best such stories 19th-century America has to offer. Now that the new season of 'Girls' is winding down, this book is an entertainment that ambitious and literate young women should turn their attention toward . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer."—Dwight Garner, New York Times  For The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography 2006 Frances Parkman Prize 2006 Mark Lynton History Prize 2006 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction 2006 Honor Book, Boston Authors Club "Excellent . . . To write a group biography that also conveys the history of an era and a place is a massive enterprise, one that requires the writer to keep the threads of the story untangled even as the characters' lives overlap and converge.  Marshall, a specialist . . . has done a fine job . . . By painting so colorful any sympathetic a portrait of these remarkable women . . . Marshall has given us so much that it seems ungrateful to ask for more."—New York Times Book Review  

L'autore:

MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller and the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006.
 

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1328745635
• ISBN 13: 9781328745637
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 365