A collection of previously unpublished drafts and partial works by Elizabeth Bishop includes pieces that were started in her early adulthood about her love for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique, dream fragments from the 1940s, and poems about her Canadian childhood. Reprint From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies. This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved Bishop to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions. Introduction ix A Note on the Text xvii I. Poems from Youth "I introduce Penelope Gwin..." 3 "Once on a hill I met a man..." 5 II. 1929-1936: College, New York, Europe, Florida "A lovely finish I have seen..." 11 Good-Bye 13 For a Pair of Eyebrows 14 Apologia 15 A Warning to Salesmen 16 Washington as a Surveyor 17 Three Poems 18 Song for the Clavichord 20 In the Tower 21 Valentine V 22 "The past..." 23 "We went to the dark cave of the street-corner..." 24 Luxembourg Gardens 27 Ina Room 28 Naples, Fla '36 30 III 1937-1950: Key West, Washington, D.C., Yaddo, Nova Scotia "What would be worst of all..." 33 Villanelle 35 "Under such heavy clouds of love..." 36 Dream 37 Florida 38 Money 39 Valentine 40 "We hadn't meant to spend so much time. . ." 41 "From the shallow night-long graves..." 42 The Street by the Cemetery 43 "It is marvellous to wake up together..." 44 Florida Deserta 45 For A.B. 46 The Salesman's Evening 47 Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box 49 Key West 51 Hannah A. 53 After the Rain 55 The Soldier and the Slot-Machine 57 Full Moon, Key West 59 "The walls went on for years & years..." 61 Stoves & Clocks 65 Little Thaw in January 66 "Don't you call me that word, honey..." 68 Current Dreams 69 The Museum 72 The Traveller to Rome 75 Dear Dr. 77 "I had a bad dream..." 79 "In the golden early morning..." 80 "In a cheap hotel..." 83 To the Admirable Miss Moore 84 Homesickness 87 The Owl's Journey 91 On the Prince of Fundy 92 IV 1951-1967: Brazil, Seattle, New York Crossing the Equator 95 Young Man in the Park 96 For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia 98 "One afternoon my aunt and I..." 99 Syllables 101 "Where are the dolls who loved me so..." 102 A Short, Slow Life 103 Suicide of a Moderate Dictator 104 To Manuel Bandeira, With Jam and Jelly 105 The Grandmothers 107 St. John's Day 109 The moon burgled the house 110 A Baby Found in the Garbage Letter to Two Friends 113 New Year's Letter as Auden Says 115 Foreign-Domestic 117 Miami 118 Keaton 119 Mimoso, Near Death 121 Brasil, 1959 122 On the Amazon 124 "Let Shakespeare & Milton..." 126 (For the window-pane) 126 The Blue Chairs (that dream) 127 Gypsophilia 128 To the Brook 130 All afternoon the freighters Rio 131 Mimosas in Bloom 132 Rainy Day, Rio. 133 Apartment in Leme 134 Something I've Meant to Write About for 30 Years 137 For T.C.B. 139 "Dear, my compass..." 140 "Close close all night..." 141 The Pretender 142 Inventory 143 V. 1968-1979: San Francisco, Ouro Preto, Cambridge, Boston "Far far away there, where I met..." 147 Aubade and Elegy 149 A Drunkard 150 Vague Poem (Vaguely love poem) 152 For Grandfather 154 Swan-Boat Ride 155 "A mother made of dress-goods..." 156 Breakfast Song 158 Belated Dedication 159 Memory of Baltimore 160 Travelling, A Love Poem 162 Salem Willows 164 Just North of Boston 167 Dicky and Sister 168 (Florida Revisited)? 177 Sammy 179 Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle 180 Appendix Mechanics of Pretence: Remarks on W.H. Auden 183 Verdigris 186 Homesickness 188 True Confessions 191 Suicide of a (Moderate) Dictator A Report in Verse & Prose 194 Mrs. Sullivan Downstairs 197 "Writing poetry is an unnatural act..." 207 Making the Wallpaper Come Off the Wall 214 The Fairy Toll-Taker 215 Ungracious Poem 217 Notes on the "Elegy" poem 219 Drafts of "One Art" 223 Notes 243 Bibliography 361 Acknowledgments 365 Index of Titles and First Lines 369