“When you write my epitaph, you must say I was the loneliest person who ever lived,” Elizabeth Bishop, who was born on this day in 1911, once said to Robert Lowell.
The poems about Brazil that finally started appearing, in the late fifties, have raised charges of condescension toward the people Bishop treats as characters. “Manuelzhino,” for example, is a fond but exasperated complaint, in a landowner’s voice, about an inept gardener—“half squatter, half tenant ”—who genially fails at every assigned task. The speaker is fully aware of the inequities between master and servant but also fully enjoys the system’s benefits.
On the unnamed island, overhung with all the hemisphere’s leftover clouds—“a sort of cloud-dump,” in Bishop’s phrase—Robinson Crusoe had nightmares of countless other islands, and feared that, eventually, he would have to live on every one. Bishop started writing a poem about Crusoe in the mid-sixties; she took it up again three years after Lota’s death. The poem takes the form of a monologue by Crusoe, long after his rescue from the island and the death of “my dear Friday.
On campus, she cut an almost exaggeratedly modest figure. At a time when Sexton was giving readings accompanied by a rock band, Bishop was assigning her class exercises in iambic pentameter. She was fifty-nine when she arrived, and remained until she was sixty-six; her students often described her as looking like someone’s aunt or grandmother. The poems she wrote in these years were no less modest than her demeanor, and no less deceptive.
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