Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Note on the Text xiii
6. Introduction: Incompatible Bishops? 1
7. PART I: IDENTITY
8. Disturbances of the Archive: Repetition and Memory in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry 19
9. 2 ‘Manuelzinho’, Brazil and Identity Politics 33
10. 3 Elizabeth Bishop’s Immersion in ‘The Riverman’ Melissa Zeiger 48
11. 4 ‘The color of the world all together’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Diffraction Patterns 59
12. PART II: THOUGHT
13. 5 ‘I take off my hat’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Comedy of Self-Revelation 77
14. 6 ‘This heaped-up autobiography’: The Role of Religion in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry 90
15. 7 Elizabeth Bishop: Life Change and Poetic Transformation 104
16. 8 ‘Swerving as I swerve’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Fugitive Empathy 117
17. 9 Repetition and Poetic Process: Bishop’s Nagging Thoughts 132
18. PART III: POETRY
19. 10 ‘Solid cuteness’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Simplicity 149
20. 11 Elizabeth Bishop and ‘a bad case of the Threes’ 164
21. 12 The Case of the Falling S: Elizabeth Bishop, Visual Poetry and the International Avant-Garde 177
22. 13 ‘The Moose’ as Movie: Elizabeth Bishop as Screenwriter 194
23. PART IV: PROSE
24. 14 Migrating Letters 209
25. 15 Patterns of Time and the Maternal in the Short Stories of Elizabeth Bishop and Katherine Mansfield 223
26. 16 ‘Thinking with one’s feelings’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Literary Criticism 237
27. PART V: OTHER PLACES, OTHER PEOPLE
28. 17 ‘Private faces in public places’: Bishop’s Triptych of Cold War Washington 253
29. 18 Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Islandology 266
30. 19 Elizabeth Bishop and Audre Lorde: Two Views of ‘Florida’ in the Global South Atlantic 280
31. 20 Innocents Abroad? Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Overseas 294
32. 21 Elizabeth Bishop in Ireland: From Seamus Heaney to Colm Tóibín 307
33. 22 Elizabeth Bishop at the End of the Rainbow 321
34. Index 337