Susan McCabe is Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University.
“I believe McCabe's work to be of utmost significance to the
currently deepening and crucial discussion of Bishop's oeuvre. Its
interpretations are affirmative and enabling. Its feminism is
synthetic and inclusive, liberating to any reader. Most important,
McCabe's is the first book to present Bishop's poetry as a
successful entirety, a coherent, humane, and progressive
enterprise.”—Donald Revell,University of Denver
“This book develops a coherent and interesting vision of Bishop's
work, centering on a poetics of loss and of the homemade. Keeping
in view the autobiographical dimensions of Bishop's writing as well
as her consciousness of her gender and her lesbianism, the book
sensitively explicates Bishop's complex explorations of isolation
and connection, her ways of constructing an often soluble self
through the imaginative action of memory. McCabe offers insightful
readings of the poems, moving easily among Bishop's various works
to highlight their connections, and drawing upon an interesting
range of theoretical frames. McCabe contributes valuably to current
feminist reevaluations of Bishop; she also joins current critical
efforts to counter some of the reductive earlier readings that
positioned Bishop only as a naturalist, an artist of precise and
impersonal description.”—Lynne Keller,University of Wisconsin
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