In this book, novelist Colm Tibn offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences the American poet Elizabeth Bishop.
"I have always been drawn to Bishop's spare poetry, but it was reading Tóibín's analysis, which manages to be both a personal reaction and an objective assessment, that helped me to appreciate her fully. Subject and critic can seldom have been as well-matched as they are here, and the insights go in both directions, illuminating Tóibín's novels as well as Bishop's poems."---Catherine Peters, Raceme
