Abstract
Abstract Elizabeth Bishop is a prolific letter writer, yet her letters to female friends have not received adequate attention. This article combines a textual approach to Bishop’s writing with an analysis of Bishop’s relationships to close female friends and argues that questions of emotional stability and Bishop’s poetic and epistolary practice are intricately interwoven concerning tone, form, and descriptive detail. The article focuses on selected letters by Bishop to Loren MacIver in 1949 to provide a case study on a rhetoric of addiction characteristic of Bishop’s writing to female friends about her daily struggles, anxieties, and alcoholism, while also examining her complicated, slow process of writing.
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