1911-1979

A collection of contemporary critical essays on the work of this 20th century American poet.

Presents all of twentieth-century American poet Elizabeth Bishop's previously collected poems and many previously uncollected; all of her poetic translations; several prose works, including stories, travel writings, essays, and discussions of literature and art; and fifty-three of her letters.

A guide to reading and understanding five poems by Elizabeth Bishop.

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.

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish doctor imprisoned at Auschwitz, tells of his experiences serving under Josef Mengele, during which he was forced to perform experiments and autopsies on fellow inmates and treated the Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who were routinely executed after four months of forced labor in the crematoria.