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Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist''s office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one''s lover in the masterfully restrained One Art, Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds grand,'' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech.

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 18 March 2008
      ISBN-13 9780374530655
      978-0374530655
      ISBN-10 0374530653
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist''s office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one''s lover in the masterfully restrained One Art, Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds grand,'' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech.

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