Bonnie Costello, Professor of English at Boston University, is the general editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore.

Essential reading for anyone interested in Elizabeth Bishop’s life and art… Bishop’s struggle as an heir to modernism comes alive in Costello’s precise prose.

• Acknowledgments

Bonnie Costello, Professor of English at Boston University, is the general editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore.

Essential reading for anyone interested in Elizabeth Bishop’s life and art… Bishop’s struggle as an heir to modernism comes alive in Costello’s precise prose.

• Acknowledgments

Bonnie Costello, Professor of English at Boston University, is the general editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore.

Essential reading for anyone interested in Elizabeth Bishop’s life and art… Bishop’s struggle as an heir to modernism comes alive in Costello’s precise prose.

• Acknowledgments