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North & South

Elizabeth Bishop · 1946 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

A printed map is studied for whether the land leans down to lift the sea from under, and whether the shadows along the shelf are shadows or shallows. A creature born out of a newspaper misprint climbs the outsides of buildings toward a hole in the sky, a caught fish is held up and looked at until the boat fills with rainbow, and a Key West rooster starts the day's betrayals. Her first book, nine years in the making.

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