The Poet As Map-Maker: The Cartographic Inspiration and Influence of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map”
New Year’s Eve of 1934 found Elizabeth Bishop recuperating from the flu. Out of her isolation, the recently orphaned 23-year-old created “The Map.” Inspired by a map’s depiction of the North Atlantic, Bishop’s exquisite poem alludes in part to the “seashore towns” and coastal waters of her childhood...
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ftjcartographicp:oai:cartographicperspectives.org:article/794 2023-05-15T17:33:15+02:00 The Poet As Map-Maker: The Cartographic Inspiration and Influence of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” Haft, Adele J. 2001-03-01 application/pdf http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp38-haft eng eng North American Cartographic Information Society http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp38-haft/pdf http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp38-haft Cartographic Perspectives; No. 38 (2001); 37-65 1048-9053 Poetry about Maps Map/Geography Education Poets as Cartographers info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2001 ftjcartographicp 2023-02-10T11:41:54Z New Year’s Eve of 1934 found Elizabeth Bishop recuperating from the flu. Out of her isolation, the recently orphaned 23-year-old created “The Map.” Inspired by a map’s depiction of the North Atlantic, Bishop’s exquisite poem alludes in part to the “seashore towns” and coastal waters of her childhood home, Nova Scotia. A seminal twentieth-century poem about maps, Bishop’s “The Map” has inspired a host of other mappoems since it opened her Pulitzer prize-winning collection, Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring, in 1955. My paper, the third in a series advocating the use of poetry in the teaching of geography, will attempt to elucidate Bishop’s masterpiece and introduce the map that, I believe, inspired her poem. The paper also will present two works influenced by “The Map”: Howard Nemerov’s “The Map-Maker on His Art” (1957) and Mark Strand’s “The Map” (1960). Linking these three acclaimed American poets even further is their recognition of an intimate and explicit connection between poets and cartographers. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Cartographic Perspectives (E-Journal - North American Cartographic Information Society, NACIS) Pulitzer ENVELOPE(-154.267,-154.267,-85.817,-85.817) |
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New Year’s Eve of 1934 found Elizabeth Bishop recuperating from the flu. Out of her isolation, the recently orphaned 23-year-old created “The Map.” Inspired by a map’s depiction of the North Atlantic, Bishop’s exquisite poem alludes in part to the “seashore towns” and coastal waters of her childhood home, Nova Scotia. A seminal twentieth-century poem about maps, Bishop’s “The Map” has inspired a host of other mappoems since it opened her Pulitzer prize-winning collection, Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring, in 1955. My paper, the third in a series advocating the use of poetry in the teaching of geography, will attempt to elucidate Bishop’s masterpiece and introduce the map that, I believe, inspired her poem. The paper also will present two works influenced by “The Map”: Howard Nemerov’s “The Map-Maker on His Art” (1957) and Mark Strand’s “The Map” (1960). Linking these three acclaimed American poets even further is their recognition of an intimate and explicit connection between poets and cartographers. |
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The Poet As Map-Maker: The Cartographic Inspiration and Influence of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” |
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The Poet As Map-Maker: The Cartographic Inspiration and Influence of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” |
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The Poet As Map-Maker: The Cartographic Inspiration and Influence of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” |
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The Poet As Map-Maker: The Cartographic Inspiration and Influence of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” |
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The Poet As Map-Maker: The Cartographic Inspiration and Influence of Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Map” |
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poet as map-maker: the cartographic inspiration and influence of elizabeth bishop’s “the map” |
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North American Cartographic Information Society |
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2001 |
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http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp38-haft |
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North Atlantic |
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Cartographic Perspectives; No. 38 (2001); 37-65 1048-9053 |
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http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp38-haft/pdf http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp38-haft |
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