The Complete Poems 1927-1979 – Elizabeth Bishop

Dark green cloth covered boards. Dust jacket unclipped. Second printing, stated. Collection of Bishop’s poems, which expands on the 1969 Complete Poems with the addition of subsequently printed material, as well as uncollected and unpublished poems.

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was an American poet, short-story writer, and painter. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956, among other literary honors and awards. Although she was independently wealthy and enjoyed a life of privilege, a substantial portion of her poetry celebrated working-class settings, including factories, farms, and fishing villages.