Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet, short-story writer, and recipient of the 1976 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956 and the National Book Award winner in 1970.
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“One can smell it turning to gas; if one were Baudelaire
one could probably hear it turning to marimba music.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“Oh, but it is dirty!
Mthis little filling station,
oil-soaked, oil-permeated
to a disturbing, over-all
black translucency.
Be careful with that match!”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“How had I come to be here,
like them, and overhear
a cry of pain that could have
got loud and worse but hadn’t?”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)