Author Talk & Signing - Thomas Travisano: "Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop"

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop moved through extraordinary mid-twentieth century worlds with relationships among an extensive international array of literati, visual artists, musicians, scholars, and politicians—along with a cosmopolitan gay underground that was then nearly invisible to the dominant culture. Drawing on fresh interviews and newly discovered manuscript materials, Travisano sheds new light on Bishop's art and life. Thomas Travisano is the founding president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society and the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman.