May 5, 2006
Elizabeth Bishop's Stray Lines
Who could have predicted that Elizabeth Bishop would be this year's It girl? More than 25 years after her death, she seems to be everywhere. We can contemplate her love affair with Lota de Macedo Soares amid 1960s upheaval in Brazil in an off-Broadway vehicle for Amy Irving, or see Cameron Diaz overcome dyslexia, on the DVD of Curtis Hanson's In Her Shoes, with her heartfelt reading of Bishop's villanelle "One Art." Bishop has recently made the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, The
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