
Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Map Is One of the Early Poems of Statement Wer
Bishop's poetry is playful, but at its heart some idea that nothing can be taken for granted. Even land, even water, even the names for things must, must, each one be written down in it. She loved george h wone of the tings were, sait and gone. Love talking about with george herbert. And she thinks forme, you can see her thinking, what thumb and finger? How how her mind works?
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