From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux has selected over five hundred and has written a detailed and informative introduction. One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, displaying to the full the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great poet.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/30/1995
ISBN: 9780374524456
Pages: 704
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.48w x 1.70d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/26/1995 pg. 32
New York Times 12/03/1995 pg. 88
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1995 pg. 88