In his talk “The Vertical Elizabeth Bishop”, poet Vijay Seshadri examines the origins and the scope of Bishop’s visionary ambitions, her complicated, paradoxical relationship to the religious traditions that shaped her thought, and, finally, her ability to expose, in small poems and large, the fundamental questions underlying our experience.
(Full Audio, approx 53 mins)
A joint initiative with the Poetry Society of America, Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.