Studying with Miss Bishop : memoirs from a young writers life /
"In Studying with Miss Bishop, Dana Gioia discusses six people who helped him become a writer and better understand what it meant to dedicate one's life to writing. Four were famous authors--Elizabeth Bishop, John Cheever, James Dickey, and Robert Fitzgerald. Two were unknown--Gioia's...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Paul Dry Books,
2021.
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| Edition: | First Paul Dry Books edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Lonely impulse of delight: one reader's childhood
- Studying with Miss Bishop
- Remembering Robert Fitzgerald
- A week with John Cheever
- "How nice to meet you, Mr. Dickey"
- Letters form the Bahamas: memoir of a poet I never met
- Postscript: Being outted
- Appendix: A conversation with John Cheever.