Marianne Boruch: O’Connor and Bishop: Closely, at a Distance (July 2011)

Marianne Boruch examines tonal distance and imagistic precision in the work of two perhaps unlikely correspondents—Flannery O’Connor and Elizabeth Bishop. Drawing on O’Connor’s fiction, Bishop’s poetry, their visual art, and the letters they exchanged, Boruch explores the mutual influence and respect between the two writers.