August 2011
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“London is murderous. I tried to write a poem yesterday, and the result was...”
– Ted Hughes, on the importance of where you are when you write, from a 1956 letter to Sylvia Plath. (http://bit.ly/qXX8JX)
Ploughshares: Elizabeth Bishop Interview →
pshares:
George Starbuck: When you were very young, which were the poets you started with?
Elizabeth Bishop: When I went to summer camp when I was twelve, someone gave me an anthology - one of the first Harriet Monroe anthologies. That made a great impression. I’d never read any of those poets before. I…
