Word: travelled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by Elizabeth Bishop. In the first book of poems that she has published since 1954, a fine but unprolific poet presents a slender sampling of superb descriptive verse...
...November crashes of two Boeing 727 jets may result in significant new precautions to make airline travel safer. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which last week issued a preliminary finding on the disasters-one near Cincinnati, the other at Salt Lake City-noted that only 52 passengers in the two tragedies got out alive, while 101 died...
QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL by Elizabeth Bishop. 95 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...these, who seek above all strangeness in things." Poet Elizabeth Bishop is another one of these. For more than 30 years, she has wandered the five continents in search of the intractable, in search of a beauty unbefriending and the poetry of the passing strange. Travel is her profession, and her art is the art of snapshot. Her poems are bright slides that commemorate in gloating color and big-pored detail the places she went, the things she saw, the tiny epiphanies of passage. They are very few and very fine. In Poems: North and South-A Cold Spring...
...Questions of Travel there are only 20 poems, but six of them are egregiously good. One is a 30-page prose poem that contains this spectacular child's-eye view of a horse being shod: "He is enormous. His rump is a brown, glossy world. His ears are secret entrances to the underworld. One of his legs is doubled up behind him in an improbable affectedly polite way. Clear bright-green bits of stiffened froth, like glass, are stuck around his mouth . . and the cloud of his odor is a chariot in itself...