Stevenson, Anne

Shortly after their marriage, Frances's husband disappears. Her search for him involves travel and danger.

Draws on the letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Anne Stevenson to analyze Bishop's poems, focusing on Bishop's search for self-placement in her childhood, her fascination with seventeenth-century baroque art, her use of the fable to give autonomy and authority to natural creatures, and her acceptance of evolutionary change.

A biography of the poet from New England, describing her life, accomplishments, and her suicide at thirty.