The complete poems (1969) -- North & south (1946) -- A cold spring (1955) -- Questions of travel (1965) -- Translations from the Portuguese (1969) -- New and uncollected work (1969) -- Geography III (1976) -- New and uncollected poems (1978-1979) -- Uncollected poems (1933-1969) -- Uncollected translations (1950-1975) -- Appendix I: Selected unpublished manuscript poems -- Appendix II: Contents of Elizabeth Bishop's books of poetry on first publication, 1946-1977

Elizabeth Bishop is one of America's greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike. The poems that make up Bishop's small and select body of work display honesty and humor, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. Her poems often start outwardly, with geography and landscape--from New England and Nova Scotia, where she grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived-- and move inexorably toward "the interior," exploring as they do fundamental questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos