Key West Literary Seminar Saves Elizabeth Bishop's HomeAccording to her recent biographer, Thomas Travisano, Elizabeth Bishop's eight-year sojourn in Key West transformed her work. "You suddenly have the natural world, and birds are clowning around, and you’ve got the sun and the sea and the sky....That quality carried over into all of her later work.” via NEW YORK TIMES |
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"The ars poetica is a poem that takes the art of poetry as its subject matter. The tradition can be traced back to the Roman lyric poet Horace (ca. 19 B.C.E.) and his poem titled “Ars Poetica,” in which he argues that poetry should be both amusing and instructive. Modern and contemporary poets have approached the genre in a myriad of ways over the years, employing it, for example, to construct broad defenses of poetry, or to make arguments for particular kinds of poetics, or as a space to meditate on or define their own aesthetics." |
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