QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL
(1965)
Rare unbound advance galley proofs of Bishop's first poetry collection after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 1955 POEMS.
Very good plus.
Price: $750.00
More by Elizabeth Bishop
Rare unbound advance galley proofs of Bishop's first poetry collection after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 1955 POEMS.
Very good plus.
Price: $750.00
"Somebody loves us all."
Bishop first came to Brazil in 1951, and once there, the poet "reshaped and redefined her entire career around Brazil from the moment of her arrival [...] so much so that her mature work is inconceivable without Brazil. Bishop's decision to stay quite literally transformed her career" (Hicok). Half the poems in QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL have overtly Brazilian themes, while the rest, separated by the section title "ELSEWHERE," hearken back to her experiences in Nova Scotia, Massachusetts, the "world of books gone flat" of St. Elizabeths hospital, all seen from a new distance of time and space.
Read more: MacMahon, Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography, A6; Costello, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery; Hicok, Bishop in Brazil.
First printing (stated). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1965). 8.25'' x 6''. Seven original unbound gatherings with olive-green endpapers. 95, [1] pages. Single scuff line to outer leaves, light wear and marginal toning to endpapers.
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