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AT THE FISHHOUSES by ELIZABETH BISHOP

Poet Analysis

First Line: ALTHOUGH IT IS A COLD EVENING
Last Line: OUR KNOWLEDGE IS HISTORICAL, FLOWING, AND FLOWN
Subject(s): FISHING AND FISHERMEN;

Poem Sources:

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS; AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1940.
  STRAND, MARK (ED.)
  (1969)
 
MODERN VERSE IN ENGLISH 1900-1950.
  CECIL, DAVID, & TATE, ALLEN (EDS.)
  (1958)
 
HARPER ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY.
  NIMS, JOHN FREDERICK (ED.)
  (1981)
 
LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. 2ND ED.
  FRIEBERT, STUART, & YOUNG, DAVID (EDS.)
  (1989)
 
VINTAGE BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY.
  MCCLATCHY, J. D. (ED.)
  (1990)
 
HARVARD BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY.
  VENDLER, HELEN (ED.)
  (1985)
 
A BOOK OF WOMEN POETS FROM ANTIQIUTY TO NOW. REVISED ED.
  BARNSTONE, ALIKI, & BARNSTONE, WILLIS
  (1992)
 
THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS; SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORKER.
  (1969)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME 2.
  (1994)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. 3RD ED. ED, BY ALEXANDER ALLISON, BLAKE HERBERT, ET AL.
  ALLISON, ALEXANDER (ED.)
  (1983)
 
EIGHT AMERICAN POETS.
  CONARROE, JOEL (ED.)
  (1997)
 
THE FABER BOOK OF 20TH CENTURY WOMEN'S POETRY.
  ADCOCK, FLEUR (ED.)
  (1987)
 
THE GOLDEN ECCO ANTHOLOGY; 100 GREAT POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
  STRAND, MARK (ED.)
  (1994)
 
AMERICAN POETRY: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. VOLUME 2. E. E. CU,MMINGS TO MAY SWENSON.
  (2000)
 
THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS; AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1940.
  STRAND, MARK (ED.)
  (2000)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.
  NELSON, CARY (ED.)
  (2000)
 
COMPLETE POEMS.
  BISHOP, ELIZABETH
  (1969)
 



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