"William Logan depicted the two poets as star-crossed lovers despite the fact
that (1) [Elizabeth] Bishop was a lesbian; and (2) [Robert] Lowell's only
romantic overture to Bishop in their thirty-year friendship--and this was a
man who would've made a pass at a fire hydrant--was met with polite silence
by its intended recipient. Yet while this flight of fancy is almost comically
unfair to both writers, it does provide a workable if unwieldy model of
ambition and Greatness. Bishop wrote the poems, Lowell acted the part, and if
you simply look back and forth fast enough between the two while squinting,
it's possible to see a single Great Poet staring back at you."
David Orr, Beautiful and Pointless, p116
thanks hahastarr!
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