The Numinous Moose
Helen Vendler, 11 March 1993
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It
by Brett Millier.
California, 602 pp., £18.50, April 1993,0 520 07978 7 Show More
by Brett Millier.
California, 602 pp., £18.50, April 1993,
“... a souvenir: In the blue pharmacy the pharmacist had hung an empty wasps’ nest from a shelf: small, exquisite, clean matte white, and hard as stucco. I admired it so much he gave it to me. The wasps’ nest, rather than the map or the Atlantic Ocean, is now Bishop’s symbolic equivalent for art: an organic form (unlike her former inorganic monument in ... ”