Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

Three decades of correspondence between two great twentieth-century American poets: "A brilliant testament to the pleasure and power of good company. . . . These two lifetimes of mutual admiration make for irresistible reading" (Oprah.com).

"Words in Air takes its place—amid the letters of Keats and Hopkins and Owen—as one of the great poetic correspondences." —The Atlantic

Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop, "You [have] always been my favorite poet and favorite frien...