Tag: Re-readings

• Boom, Boom: Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘View of the Capitol’

  

  Elizabeth Bishop is (maybe) most famous for her poems of place: she spent much of her life living in South America and wrote collections called Questions of Travel and Geography III (there was no ‘I’ or ‘II’). ‘View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress’ was written while working at the Library of Congress…

  Jem Wikeley

  April 12, 2020

  Re-readings

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