By Elizabeth Bishop
272 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Once out of print, Bishop's love poems ("Insomnia," "The Shampoo") were originally intended for women, but they now seem universal, and her famed villanelle "One Art" is among the greatest poems on loss ever written.

— Carmela Ciuraru