Reading Elizabeth Bishop

Jonathan Ellis is Reader in American Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop (Ashgate, 2006). His articles and essays on twentieth-century poetry have appeared in various journals, including English, The Journal of Modern Literature, Mosaic, PN Review and Poetry Ireland Review. He is co-editor (with Angus Cleghorn) of The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (2014).

• AcknowledgementsContributorsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Incompatible Bishops?, Jonathan EllisPART I: IDENTITY1. Disturbances of the Archive: Repetition and Memory in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry, Linda Anderson2. ‘Manuelzinho’, Brazil, and Identity Politics, Vidyan Ravinthiran3. Elizabeth Bishop’s Immersion in ‘The Riverman’, Melissa Zeiger4. ‘The Colour of the World Altogether’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Diffraction Patterns, Amy WaitePART II: THOUGHT5. ‘I Take Off My Hat’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Comedy of Self-Revelation, Rachel Trousdale6. ‘This heaped-up autobiography’: The Role of Religion in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry, Marcel Inhoff7. Elizabeth Bishop: Life Change and Poetic Transformation, Angelica Nuzzo8. ‘Swerving as I swerve’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Fugitive Empathy, Sarah Kennedy9. Repetition and Poetic Process: Bishop’s Nagging Thoughts, Deryn Rees-JonesPART III: POETRY10. ‘Solid Cuteness’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Simplicity, Jess Cotton11. Elizabeth Bishop and ‘a bad case of the Threes’, Katrina Mayson12. The Case of the Falling S: Elizabeth Bishop, Visual Poetry, and the International Avant-Garde, Susan Rosenbaum13. ‘The Moose’ as Movie: Elizabeth Bishop as Screenwriter, J T WelschPART IV: PROSE14. Migrating Letters, Sophie Baldock15. Patterns of Time and the Maternal in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bishop and Katherine Mansfield, Laura Helyer16. ‘Thinking with One’s Feelings’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Literary Criticism, Michael O’NeillPART V: OTHER PLACES, OTHER PEOPLE17. ‘Private faces in public places’: Bishop’s Triptych of Cold War Washington, Heather Treseler18. Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Islandology, James McCorkle19. Elizabeth Bishop and Audre Lorde: Two Views of ‘Florida’ in the Global South Atlantic, Marvin Campbell20. Innocents Abroad? Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Overseas, Ben Leubner21. Elizabeth Bishop in Ireland: From Seamus Heaney to Colm Tóibín, Jonathan Ellis22. Elizabeth Bishop at the End of the Rainbow, Stephanie BurtIndex

The volume includes five essays, each quite different from the other, that should be classified as essential Bishop reading.