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Elizabeth Bishop published only about 80 poems during her lifetime (1911 - 1979), and her most-loved poems are tightly worked, seemingly inevitable, like the famous villanelle “One Art” (“The art of losing isn’t hard to master...”). But she worked hard to make them so, & she abandoned a number of poems unpublished. The new collection put together by New Yorker poetry editor Alice Quinn reveals the poet at work in a variety of hitherto unpublished poems & other pieces, and most importantly in facsimile publication of the 16 existing drafts of “One Art” -- a treasure.

from The San Francisco Chronicle:
“Elizabeth Bishop’s unfinished business
The poet’s abandoned works and juvenilia reveal her evolution as an artist,” review by Megan Harlan
“Her notebooks, journals and letters -- 3,500 pages housed at the department of special collections at Vassar College, Bishop’s alma mater -- reveal a dazzling store of orphaned poems, whether in fragmented, outlined or completed form.... ‘all of it,’ as Quinn says, ‘work that for one reason or another she chose not to publish but did not destroy.’”

Related resources:
The villanelle in our glossary of poetic forms
Links to read more villanelles
More 20th century poets