Description An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop " Love Unknown points movingly to the many relationships that moored Bishop, keeping her together even as life--and her own self-destructive tendencies--threatened to split her apart." -- The Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Bishop\'s friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyo.
Description An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop " Love Unknown points movingly to the many relationships that moored Bishop, keeping her together even as life--and her own self-destructive tendencies--threatened to split her apart." -- The Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Bishop\'s friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyo