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This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where Bishop grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived - and move inexorably toward the interior, exploring questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.This new edition, edited by Saskia Hamilton, includes Bishop's four published volumes (North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel and Geography III), as well as uncollected poems, translations and an illuminating selection of unpublished manuscript poems, reproduced in facsimile, revealing exactly how finished, or unfinished, Bishop left them. It offers readers the opportunity to enjoy the complete poems of one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century.

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La poesía de E. Bishop (Worcester, Massachussets, 1911 Boston, 1979), escribió Octavio Paz, tiene la ligereza de un sueño y la gravedad de una decisión.Poesía como si el agua hablase, como si el aire pensase... Estas pobres comparaciones no son sino maneras de aludir a la perfección. No la perfección del triángulo, la esfera o la pirámide: la perfección irregular, la perfección imperfecta de la planta y del insecto. Poemas perfectos como un gato o una rosa, no como un teorema. Objetos vivos: músculos, piel, ojos, oídos, color, temperatura. Poemas que caminan, respiran, sienten, lloran (con discreción), sonríen (con inteligencia). Objetos hechos de palabras que nos hablan como cada uno de nosotros debería hablarse a sí mismo: con humor, piedad, resignación, cortesía.

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You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your beauty & a promise of my love. -James Laughlin Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.

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