Elizabeth Bishop documentary

[@JCPJCPJCP]

The lives of poets are always so interesting, possibly because they pay such close attention to everything and everyone around them.

[@cupofteawithpoetry]

I totally agree with you, John!

[@EdgarWhite-re1qv]

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[@billdauphine951]

This more profound than it first appears....❤

[@jennyhirschowitz1999]

Do they?

[@JCPJCPJCP]

Don't they?

[@sujatayogi3400]

Loved it! She is one of my favorite poet 💖😌

[@cupofteawithpoetry]

Same here! 😊

[@joyceharrison1682]

Thanks so much for uploading the Voices & Visions series! I watched it on a little black-and-white TV in the ‘80s, bought the accompanying book, and eagerly anticipated the new episode each week. This one was my favorite.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

You're very welcome! I love this series. I like the mood and tone they set, and the authors too, of course

[@mckavitt13]

@@AuthorDocumentaries One of my favourites too! Many thanks! ❤

[@IsabelleBishop-co9fo]

Anatomy of one of the greatest poets in the world! Thank's channel! 👏👏

[@weallwanttoknowx]

Beautiful to hear and watch ✨🩵🧚‍♂️🩵✨

[@nancycrabtree6312]

I got the strange feeling that one should never read Elizabeth’s poems, but should only hear them read! Weird I know, but they are deliciously conversational in feeling. How have I never heard of her?

[@barrymoore4470]

I was rather late in discovering Bishop myself. She is a poet's poet, closely concerned with formal principles but using these in ingenious. nuanced ways, so that the poems often read as deceptively simple. She was an exceptional artist, one of the most gifted poets writing in English in the twentieth century. Based on my limited exposure to her own readings of her poems, I don't think Bishop was the ideal interpreter of her work. Her voice seemed rather flat, lacking contour, not matching the magic of the words with a mellifluous enough voice. Blythe Danner here gave fine readings of these wonderful compositions, and with the right interpreter, I agree with you that Bishop's poems are enriched by audible utterance.

[@catherinewatson9799]

Thank you. A revealing introduction to a great poet.

[@dmswanson5694]

Very useful for the work; well done Write Like, many thanks

[@RP-mm9ie]

great channel

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Thanks!

[@votemonty1815]

Damn, this channel is so cool. 😎

[@dmswanson5694]

An addendum: (coming very late to the party) the sections where "Elizabeth" reads poems against defining visuals is exquisite filmmaking, good work.

[@musicstewart9744]

“Should we have stayed at home, wherever they may be?“ Yes,in 2022 America I know what that’s about.

[@niamhmckinney4027]

Who's the woman who reads the poems? I recognise her voice. Sounds like Blythe Danner. Thanks for this.

[@saallday294]

For sure

[@judithbg5588]

Oh god, James Merrill in his silk kimono - effete to the max! Bishop on the other hand has a bourgeois sturdiness, along with the sober eloquence

[@nozecone]

Torn from Nova Scotia - some of us know how that feeling persists .....

[@rainwaterradio9371]

Please, anyone, this has been over a twenty year quest....I know the last song is by Tico Da Costa, but does anyone know the title and where available to find it?

[@kimmccabe1422]

As a poet myself I appear pickier..yet I found myself with Ms Bishop not picking at all. Enjoyed much. Thank you.

[@pamfrench6150]

Re: last two commentators; don’t you see the symbolism/beauty in the descriptions? How about Robert Frost, do you think he’s simplistic too? “Stopping byThe Snowy Woods On A Snowy Evening” has beautiful images but peel the skin back on it like an onion and the last line “And miles to go before I sleep” is actually about death. Also, he was a crank who was full of himself despite his greatness as a poet and forever place in history.

[@billhaywood3503]

but what ab out the title is he "stopping" or just "stopping by"?

[@AAwildeone]

Life conforms to Art...there is no other way around

[@sallyreno6296]

I notice that several of the water colors were Key West

[@elizabethmencia6027]

I saw a photo of her in key West as a young woman. I think she lived there for a bit. About to watch the this.

[@sallyreno6296]

@@elizabethmencia6027 She did.

[@mumr4268]

Now I know more about the art of losing...a passing scene in the movie...in her shoes...makes it come alive!

[@elizabethhurtado2829]

❤

[@luminarymani]

2:01

[@abesapien9930]

Bishop's poem, "The Moose," reminds me a lot of Mary Oliver.

[@cupofteawithpoetry]

Yes!

[@theirperfectbrother4156]

34.52 haha in retrospect, now knowing she was a lesbian, this sounds so funny of an excuse for her to stay with Lota!

[@aJarrowLad525]

What instrument at the beginning so anoying

[@daniellamcgee4251]

An oboe. Unfortunately, it's repetitive, some notes out of tune, and playing in competition with the poetry reading, all adding annoyance! There are some beautiful compositions for oboe, but this isn't one of them!

[@beantrader4723]

Not moved at all.

[@robert0price]

bisexual written like disaster slay queen

[@catharinesloper8504]

She was lesbian. How interesting no one in this formal documentary even mentions it. Just nuts. I don't trust this documentary based upon that, although the pictures are interesting. Talking about being "coy, evasive, quaint", she was concerned about discrimination. Hello! And here we can see it up front that we have an entire film which doesn't mention her gender orientation. Dumb.

[@richardravenclaw318]

how did bishop and oliver ever get to be considered great poets? all these simple minded scribblers do is flatter the great opinion of yourself that you already have. i really wish they could have been something better.

[@james3210]

Booooo

[@billdauphine951]

Hmmmmm...

[@catharinesloper8504]

Elizabeth Bishop was the lifelong friend of Robert Lowell and mentored by Marianne Moore! What do you expect? Bishop is more complex and subtle than Oliver in my opinion and several of her poems are extraordinary. At the same time, she was a perfectionist and this meant that she had a limited ouvre.

[@Remedi88]

DEMURE‼️😳😂🫶🏼@8:06