{"product_id":"words-in-air-the-complete-correspondence-between-elizabeth-bishop-and-robert-lowell","title":"Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that \"you have always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.\"  The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling \"picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry \" and she once begged him  \"Please never stop writing me lettersthey always manage to make me feel like my higher self (Ive been re-reading Emerson) for several days.\" Neither ever stopped writing letters  from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young  newly launched poets until Lowells death in 1977.  Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial  revealingand often very funnyinterchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement  notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style  its wealth of literary history  its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places  and its delicious literary gossip  as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of Americas most beloved and influential poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946854608949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374185433","price":27.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374185435.jpg?v=1769969245","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/words-in-air-the-complete-correspondence-between-elizabeth-bishop-and-robert-lowell","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}