Elizabeth Bishop was a master at containing and concealing emotion, but her extraordinary poem “One Art” is a moving testament to loss. Read closely with our critics @DwightGarner and @parul_sehgal. nyti.ms/2SamJ1z
Bishop coolly catalogs small losses before movingly confronting a greater grief. nyti.ms/2SamJ1z 
“Bishop wasn’t a confessional poet,” our critics write. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she didn’t often include autobiographical details in her writing. nyti.ms/2SamJ1z
Bishop was in her mid-60s when she wrote “One Art.” She started composing it during a separation from her partner, Alice Methfessel. nyti.ms/2SamJ1z
See how this relatively buttoned-up poet came to write such a moving poem — which still has the power to make many of its readers weep. nyti.ms/2SamJ1z
Read Elizabeth Bishop’s 1976 poem “One Art,” among the most revered in the English language, alongside our critics. nyti.ms/2SamJ1z
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