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Why Do So Many Ignore The Suffering In The Poems Of Mary Oliver And Elizabeth Bishop?

WORDS Posted: July 1, 2019 4:45 am

Maybe because it’s easier on certain types of reviewers and critics to ignore clear evidence of suffering and pain? “Oliver and Bishop share a clear appetite for animal flail and gore and death. But many readers don’t seem to make very much of this. Critics praise the work, but tend to smile gently, indulgently, upon Bishop’s rhymes, her received forms and elegant impersonality, Oliver’s ‘old-fashioned’ subjects.” – LitHub

WORDS Published: 06.28.19

Read the story in LitHub Published: 06.28.19

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