{"product_id":"words-in-air-the-complete-correspondence-between-elizabeth-bishop-and-robert-lowell-9780374531898","title":"Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that you ha ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry, and she once begged him, Please never stop writing me letters--they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days. Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Presented in \u003ci\u003eWords in Air\u003c\/i\u003e is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing--and often very funny--interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374531898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.26w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/30\/2010 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916869308597,"sku":"9780374531898","price":45.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_226e3a7a-1bd9-477a-9ef5-18a38e3144be.jpg?v=1687272579","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/words-in-air-the-complete-correspondence-between-elizabeth-bishop-and-robert-lowell-9780374531898","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}