Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box : uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments /

Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box : uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments /

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From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongsid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 (Author)
Corporate Authors: Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry, Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Reading Library, Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University) Poetry, 1926-1950
Other Authors: Quinn, Alice (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007, ©2006
New York : 2006
New York : 2006
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Bishop, Elizabeth, > 1911-1979 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
Bishop, Elizabeth, > 1911-1979
Poetry
Women's studies > Biographical methods
Dust jackets (Binding) > 2006
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
Poésie
poetry
Table of Contents:
  • Poems from youth
  • 1929-1936 : college, New York, Europe, Florida
  • 1937-1950 : Key West, Washington, D.C., Yaddo, Nova Scotia
  • 1951-1967 : Brazil, Seattle, New York
  • 1968-1979 : San Francisco, Ouro Prêto, Cambridge, Boston
  • Poems from youth
  • 1929-1936 : college, New York, Europe, Florida
  • 1937-1950 : Key West, Washington, D.C., Yaddo, Nova Scotia
  • 1951-1967 : Brazil, Seattle, New York
  • 1968-1979 : San Francisco, Ouro Prêto, Cambridge, Boston
  • note: "I introduce Penelope Gwin..."
  • "Once on a hill I met a man..."
  • "A lovely finish I have seen..."
  • Good-bye--
  • For a pair of eyebrows--
  • Apologia
  • warning to salesmen
  • Washington as a surveyor
  • Three poems
  • Song - for the clavichord
  • In the tower
  • Valentine V
  • "The past..."
  • "We went to the dark cave of the street-corner..."
  • Luxembourg Gardens
  • In a room
  • Naples, Fla-- '36
  • "What would be worst of all..."
  • Villanelle
  • "Under such heavy clouds of love..."
  • Dream--
  • Florida
  • Money
  • Valentine
  • "We hadn't meant to spend so much time..."
  • "From the shallow night-long graves..."
  • street by the cemetery
  • "It is marvellous to wake up together..."
  • Florida deserta
  • For A.B.
  • salesman's evening
  • Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box
  • Key west
  • Hannah A.
  • After the rain
  • soldier and the slot-machine
  • Full moon, key west
  • "The walls went on for years & years..."
  • Stove & clocks
  • Little thaw in January
  • "Don't you call me that word, honey..."
  • Current dreams
  • museum
  • traveller to Rome
  • Dear Dr
  • "I had a bad dream..."
  • "In the golden early morning..."
  • "In a cheap hotel..."
  • To the admirable Miss Moore
  • Homesickness
  • owl's journey
  • On the Prince of Fundy
  • Crossing the equator
  • Young man in the park
  • For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia
  • Syllables
  • "Where are the dolls who loved me so..."
  • short, slow life
  • Suicide of a moderate dictator
  • To Manuel Bandeira, with jam and jelly
  • grandmothers
  • St. John's Day
  • moon burgled the house--
  • baby found in the garbage
  • Letter to two friends
  • New Year's letter as Auden says--
  • Foreign-domestic
  • Miami
  • Keaton
  • Mimoso, near death
  • Brasil, 1959
  • On the Amazon
  • "Let Shakespeare & Milton..."
  • (For the window-pane)
  • blue chairs (that dream)
  • Gypsophilia
  • To the brook
  • All afternoon the freighters - Rio
  • Mimosas in bloom
  • Rainy day, Rio.
  • Apartment in Leme
  • Something I've meant to write about for 30 years
  • For T.C.B.
  • "Dear, my compass..."
  • "Close close all night..."
  • pretender
  • Inventory
  • "Far far away there, where I met..."
  • Aubade and elegy
  • drunkard
  • Vague poem (vaguely love poem)
  • For Grandfather
  • Swan-boat ride
  • "A mother made of dress-goods..."
  • Breakfast song
  • Belated dedication
  • Memory of Baltimore
  • Travelling, a love poem
  • Salem willows
  • Just north of Boston
  • Dicky and sister
  • (Florida revisited?)
  • Sammy
  • Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle
  • Appendix
  • Mechanics of pretence : remarks on W. H. Auden
  • Verdigris
  • Homesickness
  • True confessions
  • Suicide of a (moderate) dictator - a report in verse & prose
  • Mrs. Sullivan downstairs
  • "Writing poetry is an unnatural act..."
  • Making the wallpaper come off the wall
  • fairy toll-taker
  • Ungracious poem
  • Notes on the "elegy" poem
  • "I introduce Penelope Gwin..."
  • "Once on a hill I met a man..."
  • "A lovely finish I have seen..."
  • Good-bye--
  • For a pair of eyebrows--
  • Apologia
  • A warning to salesmen
  • Washington as a surveyor
  • Three poems
  • Song - for the clavichord
  • In the tower
  • Valentine V
  • "The past..."
  • "We went to the dark cave of the street-corner..."
  • Luxembourg Gardens
  • In a room
  • Naples, Fla-- '36
  • "What would be worst of all..."
  • Villanelle
  • "Under such heavy clouds of love..."
  • Dream--
  • Florida
  • Money
  • Valentine
  • "We hadn't meant to spend so much time..."
  • "From the shallow night-long graves..."
  • The street by the cemetery
  • "It is marvellous to wake up together..."
  • Florida deserta
  • For A.B.
  • The salesman's evening
  • Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box
  • Key west
  • Hannah A.
  • After the rain
  • The soldier and the slot-machine
  • Full moon, key west
  • "The walls went on for years & years..."
  • Stove & clocks
  • Little thaw in January
  • "Don't you call me that word, honey..."
  • Current dreams
  • The museum
  • The traveller to Rome
  • Dear Dr
  • "I had a bad dream..."
  • "In the golden early morning..."
  • "In a cheap hotel..."
  • To the admirable Miss Moore
  • Homesickness
  • The owl's journey
  • On the Prince of Fundy
  • Crossing the equator
  • Young man in the park
  • For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia
  • Syllables
  • "Where are the dolls who loved me so..."
  • A short, slow life
  • Suicide of a moderate dictator
  • To Manuel Bandeira, with jam and jelly
  • The grandmothers
  • St. John's Day
  • The moon burgled the house--
  • A baby found in the garbage
  • Letter to two friends
  • New Year's letter as Auden says--
  • Foreign-domestic
  • Miami
  • Keaton
  • Mimoso, near death
  • Brasil, 1959
  • On the Amazon
  • "Let Shakespeare & Milton..."
  • (For the window-pane)
  • The blue chairs (that dream)
  • Gypsophilia
  • To the brook
  • All afternoon the freighters - Rio
  • Mimosas in bloom
  • Rainy day, Rio.
  • Apartment in Leme
  • Something I've meant to write about for 30 years
  • For T.C.B.
  • "Dear, my compass..."
  • "Close close all night..."
  • The pretender
  • Inventory
  • "Far far away there, where I met..."
  • Aubade and elegy
  • A drunkard
  • Vague poem (vaguely love poem)
  • For Grandfather
  • Swan-boat ride
  • "A mother made of dress-goods..."
  • Breakfast song
  • Belated dedication
  • Memory of Baltimore
  • Travelling, a love poem
  • Salem willows
  • Just north of Boston
  • Dicky and sister
  • (Florida revisited?)
  • Sammy
  • Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle
  • Appendix
  • Mechanics of pretence : remarks on W. H. Auden
  • Verdigris
  • Homesickness
  • True confessions
  • Suicide of a (moderate) dictator - a report in verse & prose
  • Mrs. Sullivan downstairs
  • "Writing poetry is an unnatural act..."
  • Making the wallpaper come off the wall
  • The fairy toll-taker
  • Ungracious poem
  • Notes on the "elegy" poem
  • Drafts of "one art"
  • "I introduce Penelope Gwin..."
  • "Once on a hill I met a man..."
  • "A lovely finish I have seen..."
  • Good-bye--
  • For a pair of eyebrows--
  • Apologia
  • A warning to salesmen
  • Washington as a surveyor
  • Three poems
  • Song - for the clavichord
  • In the tower
  • Valentine V
  • "The past..."
  • "We went to the dark cave of the street-corner..."
  • Luxembourg Gardens
  • In a room
  • Naples, Fla-- '36
  • "What would be worst of all..."
  • Villanelle
  • "Under such heavy clouds of love..."
  • Dream--
  • Florida
  • Money
  • Valentine
  • "We hadn't meant to spend so much time..."
  • "From the shallow night-long graves..."
  • The street by the cemetery
  • "It is marvellous to wake up together..."
  • Florida deserta
  • For A.B.
  • The salesman's evening
  • Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box
  • Key west
  • Hannah A.
  • After the rain
  • The soldier and the slot-machine
  • Full moon, key west
  • "The walls went on for years & years..."
  • Stove & clocks
  • Little thaw in January
  • "Don't you call me that word, honey..."
  • Current dreams
  • The museum
  • The traveller to Rome
  • Dear Dr
  • "I had a bad dream..."
  • "In the golden early morning..."
  • "In a cheap hotel..."
  • To the admirable Miss Moore
  • Homesickness
  • The owl's journey
  • On the Prince of Fundy
  • Crossing the equator
  • Young man in the park
  • For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia
  • Syllables
  • "Where are the dolls who loved me so..."
  • A short, slow life
  • Suicide of a moderate dictator
  • To Manuel Bandeira, with jam and jelly
  • The grandmothers
  • St. John's Day
  • The moon burgled the house--
  • A baby found in the garbage
  • Letter to two friends
  • New Year's letter as Auden says--
  • Foreign-domestic
  • Miami
  • Keaton
  • Mimoso, near death
  • Brasil, 1959
  • On the Amazon
  • "Let Shakespeare & Milton..."
  • (For the window-pane)
  • The blue chairs (that dream)
  • Gypsophilia
  • To the brook
  • All afternoon the freighters - Rio
  • Mimosas in bloom
  • Rainy day, Rio.
  • Apartment in Leme
  • Something I've meant to write about for 30 years
  • For T.C.B.
  • "Dear, my compass..."
  • "Close close all night..."
  • The pretender
  • Inventory
  • "Far far away there, where I met..."
  • Aubade and elegy
  • A drunkard
  • Vague poem (vaguely love poem)
  • For Grandfather
  • Swan-boat ride
  • "A mother made of dress-goods..."
  • Breakfast song
  • Belated dedication
  • Memory of Baltimore
  • Travelling, a love poem
  • Salem willows
  • Just north of Boston
  • Dicky and sister
  • (Florida revisited?)
  • Sammy
  • Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle
  • Appendix
  • Mechanics of pretence : remarks on W. H. Auden
  • Verdigris
  • Homesickness
  • True confessions
  • Suicide of a (moderate) dictator - a report in verse & prose
  • Mrs. Sullivan downstairs
  • "Writing poetry is an unnatural act..."
  • Making the wallpaper come off the wall
  • The fairy toll-taker
  • Ungracious poem
  • Notes on the "elegy" poem
  • Drafts of "one art"
  • "I introduce Penelope Gwin..."
  • "Once on a hill I met a man..."
  • "A lovely finish I have seen..."
  • Good-bye--
  • For a pair of eyebrows--
  • Apologia
  • A warning to salesmen
  • Washington as a surveyor
  • Three poems
  • Song - for the clavichord
  • In the tower
  • Valentine V
  • "The past..."
  • "We went to the dark cave of the street-corner..."
  • Luxembourg Gardens
  • In a room
  • Naples, Fla-- '36
  • "What would be worst of all..."
  • Villanelle
  • "Under such heavy clouds of love..."
  • Dream--
  • Florida
  • Money
  • Valentine
  • "We hadn't meant to spend so much time..."
  • "From the shallow night-long graves..."
  • The street by the cemetery
  • "It is marvellous to wake up together..."
  • Florida deserta
  • For A.B.
  • The salesman's evening
  • Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box
  • Key west
  • Hannah A.
  • After the rain
  • The soldier and the slot-machine
  • Full moon, key west
  • "The walls went on for years & years..."
  • Stove & clocks
  • Little thaw in January
  • "Don't you call me that word, honey..."
  • Current dreams
  • The museum
  • The traveller to Rome
  • Dear Dr
  • "I had a bad dream..."
  • "In the golden early morning..."
  • "In a cheap hotel..."
  • To the admirable Miss Moore
  • Homesickness
  • The owl's journey
  • On the Prince of Fundy
  • Crossing the equator
  • Young man in the park
  • For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia
  • Syllables
  • "Where are the dolls who loved me so..."
  • A short, slow life
  • Suicide of a moderate dictator
  • To Manuel Bandeira, with jam and jelly
  • The grandmothers
  • St. John's Day
  • The moon burgled the house--
  • A baby found in the garbage
  • Letter to two friends
  • New Year's letter as Auden says--
  • Foreign-domestic
  • Miami
  • Keaton
  • Mimoso, near death
  • Brasil, 1959
  • On the Amazon
  • "Let Shakespeare & Milton..."
  • (For the window-pane)
  • The blue chairs (that dream)
  • Gypsophilia
  • To the brook
  • All afternoon the freighters - Rio
  • Mimosas in bloom
  • Rainy day, Rio.
  • Apartment in Leme
  • Something I've meant to write about for 30 years
  • For T.C.B.
  • "Dear, my compass..."
  • "Close close all night..."
  • The pretender
  • Inventory
  • "Far far away there, where I met..."
  • Aubade and elegy
  • A drunkard
  • Vague poem (vaguely love poem)
  • For Grandfather
  • Swan-boat ride
  • "A mother made of dress-goods..."
  • Breakfast song
  • Belated dedication
  • Memory of Baltimore
  • Travelling, a love poem
  • Salem willows
  • Just north of Boston
  • Dicky and sister
  • (Florida revisited?)
  • Sammy
  • Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle
  • Appendix
  • Mechanics of pretence : remarks on W. H. Auden
  • Verdigris
  • Homesickness
  • True confessions
  • Suicide of a (moderate) dictator - a report in verse & prose
  • Mrs. Sullivan downstairs
  • "Writing poetry is an unnatural act..."
  • Making the wallpaper come off the wall
  • The fairy toll-taker
  • Ungracious poem
  • Notes on the "elegy" poem
  • Drafts of "one art"

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