The Collected Prose

The quality of Elizabeth Bishop's prose is as distinctive and personal as that of her poems. This rich collection, compiled by her editor, Robert Giroux, is arranged in two parts, fiction and nonfiction.

David Kalstone

It is no exaggeration to say these stories will be read beside her poems. . .(some are) worthy of Kafka or Poe. -- The New York Times Book Review

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) remains one of America's most celebrated and admired postwar poets. She won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her verse, and served as Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress in 1949-50.