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Richard Wilbur: 1993 <br>A Reading in Tribute to Elizabeth Bishop

The 1993 Key West Literary Seminar, devoted to the work of Elizabeth Bishop, featured a series of readings-in-tribute. In this recording, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur reads Bishop's &quot;Little Exercise.&quot; Originally published in her debut 1946 collection <em>North and South</em>, the poem ostensibly describes a thunderstorm &quot;roaming the sky&quot; over the mangrove islands, boulevard, herons, and sleeping indigents characteristic of Key West, a place each poet called home. Wilbur also reads his translation of &quot;Song,&quot; by Vin&iacute;cius de Moraes, the Brazilian poet and Bossa Nova pioneer who was the songwriting partner of Ant&ocirc;nio Carlos Jobim for many of Jo&atilde;o Gilberto's hits.

Posted by Arlo Haskell on March 4, 2009 2:51 PM

Elizabeth Bishop Recordings Coming Soon

We will soon begin to release audio recordings from our 1993 Seminar devoted to poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). The event was organized by John Malcolm Brinnin, a friend of Bishop's since the 1940s, and brought together many of Bishop's...

Posted by Arlo Haskell on December 2, 2008 11:38 AM