Follow-the-Leader
Colm Tóibín: Bishop v. Lowell, 14 May 2009
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.
Faber, 875 pp., £40, November 2008,978 0 571 24308 2 Show More
edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.
Faber, 875 pp., £40, November 2008,
“... both at Randall [Jarrell]’s and then for a couple of years later. I see you as rather tall, long brown-haired and thirty I guess and I don’t know what.’ Bishop replied, once more seeking accuracy from him and a sharper sense of detail: Never, never was I ‘tall’ – as you wrote remembering me. I was always 5 ft 4 and a 1/4 inches, now shrunk to 5 ft ... ”