Publications BOOKS:
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, University of California Press, 1993.
Associate Editor (with Jay Parini), Columbia History of American Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1993.
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS:
"A Modest Challenge: Elizabeth Bishop Meets Ezra Pound." Verse 4:3 (December 1987), 37-49.
"Dusty Rhoads." Baseball History 14 (1988), 13-18.
"Modesty and Morality: George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Elizabeth Bishop." Kenyon Review XI:2 (Spring,1989), 47-56.
Review of Thomas Travisano, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development, and Robert Dale Parker, The Unbeliever, The Times Literary Supplement, May 12-18, 1989, p. 516.
"William Meredith," Catalog Essay, Abernethy Collection Exhibit, Starr Library, Middlebury College, Spring, 1989.
"Elusive Mastery: The Drafts of Elizabeth Bishop's `One Art,'" New England Review, 13:2 (Spring, 1991), 121-29. Reprinted in Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender, ed. May-Lombardi, University of Virginia Press,1993, pp. 233-43. Reprinted in The Writer's Home Companion, ed. Joan Bolker, Henry Holt, 1997, pp. 101-116. Reprinted in part in Literature: An Introduction, Gioia and Kennedy, eds. (Harper Collins, 1997) and in Literature and its Writers, Ann Charters and Samuel Charters, eds., (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000).
Review of Bonnie Costello, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery, and Lorrie Goldensohn, Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry, Harvard Review, Spring 1992.
"Elizabeth Bishop," Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1994.
"Louise Bogan," Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1994.
Review of Linda Gray Sexton, Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton, New England Review (forthcoming, Fall 1995).
"The Prodigal: Elizabeth Bishop and Alcohol," Contemporary Literature 39:1 (Spring 1998), pp. 54-76.
Review of Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year. New England Review 20:2 (Summer 1998), pp. 158-61
"Mailbox Rage," Vermont Magazine (April 1999), 72.
"Elizabeth Bishop," forthcoming in Notable American Women (Cambridge: Radcliffe Institute, 2002)
"'Hold to Oblivion': Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie and Alcohol; forthcoming in Poetesses' Poetics: A Reader, ed by Peggy Davis, Annie Finch, and Laura Mandell
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