%0 Book %A Laura Jehn Menides %A Angela G. Dorenkamp %D 2021 %C New York, United States of America %I Peter Lang Verlag %T «In Worcester, Massachusetts»- Essays on Elizabeth Bishop %B From the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference at WPI %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1089156 %X «In Worcester, Massachusetts»: Essays on Elizabeth Bishop reflects the growing interest in the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). The thirty-four contributors to the volume - scholars, creative writers, poets, translators, and biographers - offer essays on a fascinating array of topics: Bishop's crucial and troubled relationship with her birthplace, Worcester, Massachusetts; Bishop as translator and translated; her poetics, travels, and sexual and racial politics; her paintings; her manuscripts and methods of composition; and her place in the canon of American literature. %K birthplace, poetics, travels, politics, paintings %G English