Born in Montreal, July 1, 1944. I graduated from nowhere and though I've had more jobs than the guy on the back of the bookcover I've managed to stay mainly unemployed throughout and am really (I swear) a poet, artist, raconteur, bon vivant and one of the
Restraint, the central emotion of Bishop’s poetry, is only necessary when there is an overwhelming pressure towards expression – in just the same way as, according to T. S. Eliot, the extinction of personality is only possible when there is a personal
Never before such a distant season of derision. Across town, the silo siren heralds an encore to panic. The lake below Mexico City shivers like a Plexiglas dance floor.
This extraordinary collection of word games, visual tricks, and intellectual assaults on the conventional is a treasure trove of the artistic and socio-linguistic conundrums which the Surrealists cultivated. Of great value to teachers, comedy writers, and