Elizabeth Bishop

Questions of Mastery

Bonnie Costello

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$32.00 • £25.95 • €29.00

ISBN 9780674246904

Publication Date: 03/15/1993

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280 pages

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In this finely written companion to Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, Bonnie Costello gives a compelling use of Bishop and her ways of seeing and writing.

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