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Bezig met laden... Geography III (1976)door Elizabeth Bishop
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Thought I would love this collection but I was left feeling lukewarm. While In the Waiting Room and Night City were my favorites, I didn't really feel much for the other poems. ( ) In central Ohio somewhere east of the capital I went with E.B. to keep an appointment and she spoke to me of many things: We're all "in the waiting room" was one of them, an aside that I handled with fair words of praise. Bristle not when I bring up John Livingston Lowes who is said to have said "Free verse may be written as very beautiful prose; prose may be written as very beautiful free verse. Which is which?" this de-constructor of Xanadu who plumbed Coleridge's creative fountain, giving double-edged acclaim. Reading her book of poems I felt a "sweet sensation of joy" and that is all there is to it. My feelings are bit skewed, I think, since i read the first half of the book a few weeks ago, and just finished the second half. 'In the Waiting Room' is great, no doubt about it, and Crusoe in England too. The rest of the book? Meh. I suspect that all the deep interpretations of these poems are more about the reader than the poet, and to be honest, whatever it is that I go to poetry for, Bishop doesn't give it to me. The poems are very pretty, no doubt, and have intellectual heft. I'm not sure what they lack- maybe an appropriate level of (British style) irony? Maybe my problem is rather what's in them: descriptions of art-works, descriptions of mildly surrealistic landscapes (or maybe 'landscapes'). I read a review which praised Bishop's 'sense of place,' and that might sum it up. Lacking much of a sense of place myself, I can't recognize it in others. So it's all my fault that I'm not into Bishop, but I think I can live with it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Geography III, Bishop's final book of poems, first appaered in 1976. It contains such masterpieces as "In the Waiting Room," "The Moose," and "One Art." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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