Elizabeth Bishop and Howard Moss: A Question of Accuracy By Daniel D’Arezzo   Among poets writing in English in the mid-twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) has emerged as one of the most influential—an influence not only on later generations of poets but on her contemporaries as well. Her oeuvre was not large: she published only a handful of books in her lifetime, and the poems were usually short; a longish poem like “Manuelzinho” has only 145 lines. She often wrote […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2012 Issue • Tags: Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Moss, New Yorker, poetry