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In Worcester, Massachusetts: Essays on Elizabeth Bishop reflects the growing interest in the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). The thirty-four contributors to the volume - scholars, creative writers, poets, translators, and biographers - offer essays on a fascinating array of topics: Bishop's crucial and troubled relationship with her birthplace, Worcester, Massachusetts; Bishop as translator and translated; her poetics, travels, and sexual and racial politics; her paintings; her manuscripts and methods of composition; and her place in the canon of American literature.

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This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the life and work of Elizabeth Bishop. One of America's greatest poets, she was also one of its most hidden - reticent about her personal life, modest about her professional life. So, when as much about her comes to light as it does in 'In Worcester, Massachusetts': Essays on Elizabeth Bishop', there is cause for celebration. (Mark Strand) This new book of essays on Elizabeth Bishop is a welcome addition to the burgeoning list of critical works on this increasingly highly regarded poet. It includes a great many of those who have had a long and fruitful relation with Bishop's work - Thomas Travisano, Barbara Page, Lorrie Goldensohn, Sandra Barry, Gary Fountain, Camille Roman, Lloyd Schwartz - as well as many newer voices. This is the first collection to address at length such issues as Bishop's politics and social vision, her childhood, her relations with Lota and Brazil, and her links to other writers. An invaluable collection of the most current work. (Cheryl Walker, Armour Professor of Modern Languages, Scripps College)

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The Editors: Laura Jehn Menides, Associate Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, writes poetry, fiction, and opera lyrics, as well as literary criticism on Elizabeth Bishop and other contemporary authors. Her work on Bishop includes Elizabeth Bishop's Worcester Connections in The Worcester Review (1997) and the forthcoming Elizabeth Bishop Revisited. Angela G. Dorenkamp, Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Assumption College, worked with an interdisciplinary team under an NEH grant to produce Images of Women in American Popular Culture, now in its second edition. She has also served as national President of the College English Association and as Chair of the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities. The Contributors: Laura Jehn Menides, Thomas Travisano, Barbara Page, Gail H. Dayton, David Thoreen, Stanley Sultan, Sandra Barry, Neil Besner, Carmen L. Oliveira, George Monteiro, Maria Clara Bonetti Paro, Audrey E. Hooker, Harriet Y. Cooper, Joelle Biele, Crystal Bacon, Joan L. Fields, Don Adams, Lorrie Goldensohn, Barbara Comins, Kirstin Hotelling, Helen McNeil, Gary Fountain, Maria Lucia Milleo Martins, Robert Cording, Camille Roman, James McCorkle, Lee Fontanella, M. Sheila McAvey, Lloyd Schwartz, Michiru Oguchi, Margaret Mitsutani, Carol E. Miller, Eden Osucha, Renee R. Curry, Steven Gould Axelrod.

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