7/3/2020 2 Comments Vital MemoryContinuing the focus on the work of Elizabeth Bishop, in his biography LOVE UNKNOWN Thomas Travisano brings out how an experience long past becomes the subject of a poem by Bishop appearing generations later. "In the Waiting Room," published in GEOGRAPHY III asserts:
The waiting room was bright and too hot. It was sliding beneath a big black wave, another, and another. Then I was back in it. The War was on. Outside, in Worcester, Massachusetts, were night and slush and cold, and it was still the fifth of February, 1918. Elizabeth Bishop
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Neva HerringtonNeva Herrington is a poet and former educator. She is currently working on a new book of poetry, a collection of short stories, and her memoir. Her inspiration comes from her own experience and the work of other poets. Archives
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