Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Marshall studied under Bishop, and braids her own memories into the biography, which gives her access to the reticence Bishop built her life and work around.
Marshall, who studied under Bishop, braids the biography with her own memories of the poet, an unusual move that gives the book access to the reticence Bishop built her life and work around. It covers the early losses, the drinking, the Brazil years, and the late love that reorganised her final decade.
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