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What can her private correspondence add to the legacy of her poems? A great deal, as it turns out, including the struggles that lay behind Bishop's quest for perfection. One Art (Farrar Straus Giroux; 668 pages; $35) offers 541 letters selected from the more than 3,000 assembled by her editor Robert Giroux. The book amounts to a kind of daily autobiography, with none of the reshaping that memory can impose. Bishop loved sending and receiving mail. "I sometimes wish," she wrote while a student at Vassar, "that I had nothing, or little more, to do but write letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Mastered the Art of Losing | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...Secret Room, by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $15). Once upon one more time, we have the slightly dippy king who craves the answer to a riddle ("Why is your head gray and your beard black?"), the humble but clever man who provides it and the nasty court counselor who is jealous. Humility prevails and spin-doctoring fails, as invariably happens in stories. The author's angular tempera illustrations are vivid and funny -- the camel on which the king perches is an unusually thoughtful and sardonic beast -- but the somewhat preachy story doesn't add much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Wild Things Roam | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

PUBLISHER: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX; 453 PAGES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Hit, A Small Miss | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

PUBLISHER: FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX; 570 PAGES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grouch From Hull | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

PUBLISHER: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX; 386 PAGES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lawyer on The Lam | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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