Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
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Gunn's 'Suicide', 'Mmm, Help Me'
M, it's eriterat changing the whole way we look at her career. Both of them had something they didn't wan to talk mand. We notice this m in gunn's book, boss cupid, where he writes a poem called the gas poker. In that poem, he its a poem about the suicide of his mother when he was about 14. He just says, m, could it have been forty three years ago? And it's the first mention of the suicide,. first open mention of the Suicide in his work, forty three years after it occurs. It reflects back on the early poetry. And then he reviewed geography three, and m he m he talked about
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