Bishop only published one hundred and one poems in her lifetime, and some of those came after “The Complete Poems” was released in 1970.
Today’s featured poem is “The Map” by Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop is yet another poet who rankled mid-last-century at being included among those known as The Confessional Poets.
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