This Sunday night’s poet is Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop’s life almost completely overlapped that of Muriel Rukseyer (last week’s poet); last February 8 was the anniversary of her birth in 1911. However, unlike Rukeyser, Bishop was much more selective in what she published; her “complete poems” is shorter than many a “selected poems.” Her most famous poem is probably the villanelle “One Art” (“the art of losing isn’t hard to master”), but my personal favorite is “The Man-Moth,” subtitled “Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for ‘mammoth’”:
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