“The Closet of Breath: Elizabeth Bishop, Her Body and Her Art,” in Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 152-75.
In the following essay, Lombardi examines the effect of Bishop's numerous illnesses on her poetry.
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