Geography III : Poems - Pasta blanda

Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist ' s office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one ' s lover in the masterfully restrained " One Art, " Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, " The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds ' grand, ' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech. "