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Her most Famous Poem

Elizabeth Bishop only made 101 poems in her lieftime but was refered to as a "Perfectionist" trying to make sure her poems could be the best they could be.
 
Many of her poems are about the beauty of the physical world with the sense of poetic atmosphere. The deeper meaning showing the struggle to find something or to belong somewhere mixed with human grief.

Click here to see the poem "One Art"

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Elizabeth on her life

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.