Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known. This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love Unknown, Thomas Travisano, founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society, tells the story of the famous poet and traveler's life.