Editing Elizabeth Bishop (section)

==Publication history and awards==
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For a major American poet, Bishop published very sparingly. Her first book, ''North & South'', was first published in 1946 and won the Houghton Mifflin Prize for poetry. This book included important poems like "The Man-Moth" (which describes a dark and lonely fictional creature inspired by what Bishop noted was "[a] newspaper misprint for 'mammoth'") and "The Fish" (in which Bishop describes a caught fish in exacting detail). But she did not publish a follow-up until nine years later. That volume, titled ''[[Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring]]'', first published in 1955, included her first book, plus the 18 new poems that constituted the new "Cold Spring" section. Bishop won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry|Pulitzer Prize]] for this book in 1956.

Then there was another long wait before her next volume, ''Questions of Travel'', in 1965. This book showed the influence that living in Brazil had had on Bishop's writing. It included poems in the book's first section that were explicitly about life in Brazil including "Arrival at Santos", "Manuelzinho", and "The Riverman". But in the second section of the volume Bishop also included pieces set in other locations like "In the Village" and "First Death in Nova Scotia", which take place in her native country. ''Questions of Travel'' was her first book to include one of her short stories (the aforementioned "In the Village").

Bishop's next major publication was ''The Complete Poems'' (1969), which included eight new poems and won a [[National Book Award for Poetry|National Book Award]]. The last new book of poems to appear in her lifetime, ''[[Geography III]]'' (1977) included frequently anthologized poems like "In the Waiting Room" and "[[One Art]]". This book led to Bishop's being the first American and the first woman to be awarded the [[Neustadt International Prize for Literature]].<ref>[http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/1976-neustadt-laureate-elizabeth-bishop#.UbL_ResjE7A Neustadt International Prize for Literature listing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303215506/http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/1976-neustadt-laureate-elizabeth-bishop |date=March 3, 2014 }} Retrieved April 25, 2008</ref>

Bishop's ''The Complete Poems, 1927–1979'' was published posthumously in 1983. Other posthumous publications included ''The Collected Prose'' (1984; a compilation of her essays and short stories) and ''Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments'' (2006), whose publication aroused some controversy. [[Meghan O'Rourke]] notes in an article from ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' magazine, <blockquote>It's no wonder ... that the recent publication of Bishop's hitherto uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments ... encountered fierce resistance, and some debate about the value of making this work available to the public. In an outraged piece for ''The New Republic'', [[Helen Vendler]] labeled the drafts "maimed and stunted" and rebuked Farrar, Straus and Giroux for choosing to publish the volume.<ref>O'Rourke, Meghan. "[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_highbrow/2006/06/casual_perfection.single.html Casual Perfection: Why did the publication of Elizabeth Bishop's drafts cause an uproar?]" ''Slate''. June 13, 2006.</ref></blockquote>