On Elizabeth BishopIn this book, novelist Colm Tibn offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences, the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tibn creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling