Poems: North & South – A Cold Spring

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) was an American poet known for her precise, descriptive verse that captured the physical world with serene objectivity. Orphaned early and raised partly in Nova Scotia, she graduated from Vassar College, lived extensively abroad including 15 years in Brazil, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring and the National Book Award in 1970 for The Complete Poems. Her reputation as one of the 20th century's greatest American poets grew posthumously, bolstered by collections like Geography III.