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Elizabeth Bishop biography

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A SECRET REVEALED ‘Love Unknown’ Explores Traumatized Poet’s Struggle

A SECRET REVEALED ‘Love Unknown’ Explores Traumatized Poet’s Struggle By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Tom Travisano is the top expert on Elizabeth Bishop, ever since falling in love with her work while taking a Contemporary Poetry course at the University of Virginia in 1975. “She was the poet who really jumped out to me,” he remembers. Several of his nine books dealt with her, from “Midcentury Quartet” (1999), exploring Bishop along with Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell…

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