Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
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How Much Do You Weigh?
Elizabeth bishop's poems are autobiographical, and that they are all true. All the details that she writes about she has seen and makes you see them. She was a very reserved person and didn't like confessional poems at all. It wasn't until she wrote the last poem, sonnet, which actually she says who she is, and the new yorker wouldn't take it even though it is a very subtle little poem. Sonet ays, one of theminit tinny tittleane a. They're hardly any words in it at all. And you feel that it's almost a way, its a letter to robert lowell, whoas been writing thousands
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