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Edgar Allan Poe and The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments.(Book review)

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From: The Antioch Review
Date: 20060922
Author:Moldaw, Carol

Edgar Allan Poe and The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 392 pp., $30.00. To see transcriptions and drafts of failed poems is not perhaps as illuminating as seeing the genesis and development of a masterpiece such as "One Art," the only completed poem represented (through 16 drafts) in this collection of Bishop's "Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments," but there is interest, fascination, in catching drifts of the poet's characteristic tone and gestures before they float off, ...

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