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Born in February 8, 1911 / Died in October 6, 1979 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • North & South (also see below), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1946, reprinted, 1964.
  • Poems: North & South [and] A Cold Spring, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1955, abridged edition published as Poems, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1956.
  • Questions of Travel, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1965.
  • Selected Poems, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1967.
  • The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1968.
  • The Complete Poems, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Geography III, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1976.
  • The Complete Poems, 1927-1979, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1983.
  • Edgar Allen Poe & the Juke-box, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to anthologies, including Trial Balances, edited by Ann Winslow, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1935.

OTHER

  • (Translator from the Portuguese) Alice Brant, The Diary of "Helena Morley," Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1957, reprinted, 1995.
  • (With the editors of Life) Brazil, Time, Inc. (New York, NY), 1962.
  • (Editor, with Emanuel Brasil) An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1972.
  • (Translator, with G. Aroul) Octavio Paz, Selected Poems of Octavio Paz, New Directions, 1984.
  • The Collected Prose, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1984.
  • (With Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell) Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1989.
  • One Art: Letters, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1994.
  • (Translator) Joao C. De Melo Neto, Selected Poetry, 1937-1990, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1995.
  • Exchanging Hats: Thirty-nine Paintings, edited by William Benton, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1996.
  • (With George Monteiro) Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop (interviews), University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1996.
  • (Editor, with Joel Conarroe and Theodore Roethke) Eight American Poets: An Anthology, Vintage Books, 1997.
  • Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop (edited by Saskia Hamilton), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010.
  • Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence (edited by Joelle Bispiel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011.

Also translator, with others, of Travelling in the Family by Carlos Drummond. Contributor of poetry and fiction to periodicals, including Kenyon Review, New Republic, Partisan Review, and Poetry. Co-founder of Con Spirito.