ON ELIZABETH BISHOP

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 225 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of the finest Contributions to Princeton University's brilliant "Writers On Writers" Series. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. The DJ Cover shows a lovely vintage portrait of Elizabeth Bishop from Bettman Archives. Presents Colm Toibin's "On Elizabeth Bishop". A gem of a book: The mirror-portrait of the subject and her author. "A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelists. Offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait. For Toibin, the secret of Bishop's emotional power is in what she leaves unsaid. Exploring Bishop's famous attention to detail, he describes how she is able to convey great emotion indirectly, through precise descriptions of particular settings, objects, and events. Examines how Bishop's attachment to the Nova Scotia of her childhood, despite her later life in Key West and Brazil, is related to the early loss of her parents, and how this connection finds echoes in Toibin's life as an Irish writer who has lived in Barcelona, New York, and elsewhere" (Publisher's blurb) . An absolute "must-have" title for Colm Toibin and Elizabeth Bishop collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Colm Toibin. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a fine copy of the Souvenir Material of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest novelist/writers of our time on one of the greatest poet/writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COLM TOIBIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0691154112.