Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet, short-story writer, and recipient of the 1976 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956 and the National Book Award winner in 1970.
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“One can smell it turning to gas; if one were Baudelaire
one could probably hear it turning to marimba music.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“Light-lashed, self-righteous, above moving snouts,
the pigs’ eyes followed him, a cheerful stare,
even to the sow that always ate her young—”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“I saw
that from his lower lip
if you could call it a lip—
grim, wet, and weaponlike,
hung five old pieces of fish-line,”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)