Fire Balloons: The Letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
Fire Balloons: The Letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
This chapter offers a close reading of Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Armadillo’ and Robert Lowell’s ‘Skunk Hour’ in the light of the recently published letters between the two poets, as well as Bishop’s correspondence with The New Yorker. It looks at letters as ‘the other life that [a poem] might have had’ and a poem as ‘the other life that [letters’ might have had’, concluding that the relationship between Lowell and Bishop was often less benign than we’ve led ourselves to believe.
Keywords: Elizabeth Bishop, intertextuality, letters, Robert Lowell, mimicry, Marianne Moore, The New Yorker, twentieth-century poetry
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