From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts.Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Boxpresents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies. This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved Bishop to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions.

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Alice Quinn is poetry editor of The New Yorker and the director of the Poetry Society of America.

Introduction	p. ix
A Note on the Text	p. xvii
Poems from Youth
"I introduce Penelope Gwin..."	p. 3
"Once on a hill I met a man..."	p. 5
1929-1936: College, New York, Europe, Florida
"A lovely finish I have seen..."	p. 11
Good-Bye	p. 13
For a Pair of Eyebrows	p. 14
Apologia	p. 15
A Warning to Salesmen	p. 16
Washington as a Surveyor	p. 17
Three Poems	p. 18
Song-for the Clavichord	p. 20
In the Tower	p. 21
Valentine V	p. 22
"The past..."	p. 23
"We went to the dark cave of the street-corner..."	p. 24
Luxembourg Gardens	p. 27
In a Room	p. 28
Naples, Fla-'36	p. 30
1937-1950: Key West, Washington, D.C., Yaddo, Nova Scotia
"What would be worst of all..."	p. 33
Villanelle	p. 35
"Under such heavy clouds of love..."	p. 36
Dream	p. 37
Florida	p. 38
Money	p. 39
Valentine	p. 40
"We hadn't meant to spend so much time..."	p. 41
"From the shallow night-long graves..."	p. 42
The Street by the Cemetery	p. 43
"It is marvellous to wake up together..."	p. 44
Florida Deserta	p. 45
For A.B.	p. 46
The Salesman's Evening	p. 47
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box	p. 49
Key West	p. 51
Hannah A.	p. 53
After the Rain	p. 55
The Soldier and the Slot-Machine	p. 57
Full Moon, Key West	p. 59
"The walls went on for years & years..."	p. 61
Stoves & Clocks	p. 65
Little Thaw in January	p. 66
"Don't you call me that word, honey..."	p. 68
Current Dreams	p. 69
The Museum	p. 72
The Traveller to Rome	p. 75
Dear Dr.	p. 77
"I had a bad dream..."	p. 79
"In the golden early morning..."	p. 80
"In a cheap hotel..."	p. 83
To the Admirable Miss Moore	p. 84
Homesickness	p. 87
The Owl's Journey	p. 91
On the Prince of Fundy	p. 92
1951-1967: Brazil, Seattle, New York
Crossing the Equator	p. 95
Young Man in the Park	p. 96
For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia	p. 98
"One afternoon my aunt and I..."	p. 99
Syllables	p. 101
"Where are the dolls who loved me so..."	p. 102
A Short, Slow Life	p. 103
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator	p. 104
To Manuel Bandeira, With Jam and Jelly	p. 105
The Grandmothers	p. 107
St. John's Day	p. 109
The moon burgled the house	p. 110
A Baby Found in the Garbage	p. 111
Letter to Two Friends	p. 113
New Year's Letter as Auden Says	p. 115
Foreign-Domestic	p. 117
Miami	p. 118
Keaton	p. 119
Mimoso, Near Death	p. 121
Brasil, 1959	p. 122
On the Amazon	p. 124
"Let Shakespeare & Milton..."	p. 126
(For the window-pane)	p. 126
The Blue Chairs (that dream)	p. 127
Gypsophilia	p. 128
To the Brook	p. 130
All afternoon the freighters-Rio	p. 131
Mimosas in Bloom	p. 132
Rainy Day, Rio	p. 133
Apartment in Leme	p. 134
Something I've Meant to Write About for 30 Years	p. 137
For T.C.B.	p. 139
"Dear, my compass..."	p. 140
"Close close all night..."	p. 141
The Pretender	p. 142
Inventory	p. 143
1968-1979: San Francisco, Ouro Preto, Cambridge, Boston
"Far far away there, where I met..."	p. 147
Aubade and Elegy	p. 149
A Drunkard	p. 150
Vague Poem (Vaguely love poem)	p. 152
For Grandfather	p. 154
Swan-Boat Ride	p. 155
"A mother made of dress-goods..."	p. 156
Breakfast Song	p. 158
Belated Dedication	p. 159
Memory of Baltimore	p. 160
Travelling, A Love Poem	p. 162
Salem Willows	p. 164
Just North of Boston	p. 167
Dicky and Sister	p. 168
(Florida Revisited)?	p. 177
Sammy	p. 179
Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle	p. 180
Appendix
Mechanics of Pretence: Remarks on W. H. Auden	p. 183
Verdigris	p. 186
Homesickness	p. 188
True Confessions	p. 191
Suicide of a (Moderate) Dictator-A Report in Verse & Prose	p. 194
Mrs. Sullivan Downstairs	p. 197
"Writing poetry is an unnatural act..."	p. 207
Making the Wallpaper Come Off the Wall	p. 214
The Fairy Toll-Taker	p. 215
Ungracious Poem	p. 217
Notes on the "Elegy" poem	p. 219
Drafts of "One Art"	p. 223
Notes	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 361
Acknowledgments	p. 365
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 369
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