The course will be taught by Michael Braziller, the Publisher of Persea Books, an independent literary press he co-founded in 1975, which is devoted almost exclusively to educational and poetry titles. Mr. Braziller and his guest, Alice Quinn, will look closely at several poems by Elizabeth Bishop that deal with travel and the memory of home, including "At the Fishhouses," "Questions of Travel," "In the Waiting Room," "The Moose," "One Art," "Poem," "Vague Poem," and "In a Cheap Hotel". The principal emphasis will be on the emotional and psychological life of the poems. No prior registration or fee is required. To view the poems, please click on the link below (you can choose PDF or Word format). Please bring a printed copy to the class. Copies of the poems will not be provided at the event.

Poems of Elizabeth Bishop (PDF)
Poems of Elizabeth Bishop (Word)

Alice Quinn is the poetry editor of The New Yorker and executive director of the Poetry Society of America. She is the editor of the just-published Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop.