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"In your next letter I wish you'd say
where you are going and what you are doing;
how are the plays, and after the plays
what other pleasures you are pursuing:"
Reading Bishop's "Letter to N.Y." this morning made me miss the city (and being younger in the city, if we're being honest).
Full poem here: https://www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/bishope/Letter.html
Brief blog post, mostly on Elizabeth Bishop's quartet of seashore poems in A Cold Spring -- probably should have just titled this: "Where are the humans?"
https://nearerandfarther.com/posts/2026/08/like-what-we-imagine-knowledge-to-be-bishop-ferrell/
Some of the little white boats are still piled up
against each other, or lie on their sides, stove in,
and not yet salvaged, if they ever will be, from the last bad storm,
like torn-open, unanswered letters.
The bight is littered with old correspondences.
-- From Elizabeth Bishop's "The Bight"
Read this morning. Already liked it, but after realizing it was a poem written on her birthday, the whole thing really shifted for me. Loved it. Blogged about it:
https://nearerandfarther.com/posts/2026/08/like-torn-open-unanswered-letters-bishop/
Started reading Elizabeth Bishop's volume of poetry entitled A Cold Spring (1955) this morning. It opens with the titular poem, which I read (and shared here!) back in April.
It's so good and I was happy to re-read it -- especially on the other side of summer. Since the weather's not cooperating with my tasks today, I stopped to blog a few words about it.
https://nearerandfarther.com/posts/2026/08/starting-bishops-a-cold-spring-bishop-hopkins/
Will put #ReadingNotes on the larger volume here.
How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/18/lichen/
How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/18/lichen/
20 Ways of Surfacing from the Blues: Sydney Smith’s 200-year-old Strategies for Raising Low Spirits in a Letter of Advice to a 13-year-old Girl
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/07/sydney-smith-low-spirits/
20 Ways of Surfacing from the Blues: Sydney Smith’s 200-year-old Strategies for Raising Low Spirits in a Letter of Advice to a 13-year-old Girl
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/07/sydney-smith-low-spirits/
The Art of Losing and the Art of Beckoning Love Back: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Poems Ever Written
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/03/one-art/
The Art of Losing and the Art of Beckoning Love Back: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Poems Ever Written
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/03/one-art/
A arte de perder – em Elizabeth Bishop e Bruno Barreto
O percurso trágico da poeta norte-americana até chegar a seu poema genial sobre a perda. O filme sensível e criativo do diretor brasileiro que recupera estes passos. E uma nota sobre a insatisfação consigo mesmo, condição essencial de todo artistahttps://outraspalavras.net/poeticas/a-arte-de-perder-em-elizabeth-bishop-e-bruno-barreto/
A arte de perder – Elizabeth Bishop e Bruno Barreto
A cold spring:
the violet was flawed on the lawn.
For two weeks or more the trees hesitated;
the little leaves waited,
carefully indicating their characteristics.
Finally a grave green dust
settled over your big and aimless hills.
One day, in a chill white blast of sunshine,
on the side of one a calf was born.
The mother stopped lowing
and took a long time eating the after-birth,
a wretched flag,
but the calf got up promptly
and seemed inclined to feel gay.
-- Excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop, "A Cold Spring"
Full poem available here: https://www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/bishope/ColdSpring.html
As we lie down to sleep the world turns half away
through ninety dark degrees;
the bureau lies on the wall
and thoughts that were recumbent in the day
rise as the others fall,
stand up and make a forest of thick-set trees.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do
so many a dangerous thing,
are chugging at its edge
all camouflaged, and ready to go through
the swiftest streams, or up a ledge
of crumbling shale, while plates and trappings ring.
-- Elizabeth Bishop, "Sleeping Standing Up"
(Remainder of poem in next toot)
Elizabeth Bishop | Pequeño ejercicio
[en «Poemas» 2009]
“Piensa en la tormenta que ronda por el cielo
como un perro en busca de un lugar donde dormir
escucha cómo gruñe.”[...]
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Post by @locagonia
#ElizabethBishop #EscritoresMalditos #locagonia
Bueno, ba hemen da udaberria #MPK #JuanGelman #ElizabethBishop
How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/16/lichen/
How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/16/lichen/
“Nachsicht ist ein Mangel an Wertschätzung, ein Zeichen der Verachtung.” #zitat #diepoetin
#elizabethbishop
Ballade von der Urgewalt der Liebe!
Begabung, Ruhm und Erfolg sind keine Garanten des Glücks. Davon erzählt der brasilianische Regisseur #BrunoBarreto in der dramatischen Liebesballade "Die Poetin" mit packender Eindringlichkeit.
#DiePoetin (Film) | Inhalt, Besetzung & Kritik
#elizabethbishop
https://www.derfilmeblog.com/die-poetin/
How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/02/lichen/
Door J.Bernlef vertaalde #poëzie van #MarianneMoore en #ElizabethBishop, uit de bundel 'Alfabet op de rug gezien.' Die zal nog wel vaker worden opengeslagen.
(...) It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn from the cold hard mouth
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
forever, flowing and drawn, and since
our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
New linky-mail! This one's got an evening w/ #BillGates & co., links by/re #PeterGabriel, my hometown, @calebcrain Jesse Lambert, Hey, Roz!, #ElizabethBishop, #coffee & volcanoes, & more, so GO READ! https://vmspod.substack.com/p/hitting-the-links-121023
Elizabeth Bishop and her cat, Minnow. #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage #elizabethbishop #greycat http://jazzriffing.blogspot.com/2014/02/of-bishop-billie-and-blues.html
