Elizabeth Bishop was not a poet I was familiar with prior to this month, when I managed to read three distinct poetry collections. Although I went with a 'Complete Works of' poetry anthology, I read her work chronologically, as it was published, and because the individual volumes were relatively short, I was able to get through one published volume in a sitting, which was a good way to digest it. That said, it didn't thrill me in the way I expected -- I guess I thought that a twentieth-century woman poet would somehow be more meaningful to me than many of the others I've read, but that wasn't the case. I certainly enjoyed her writing but I expected her to quickly become my favorite, which wasn't the case. The one positive take-away though is that because I have a huge, complete volume of her work, I'll definitely keep reading her poetry, so maybe my response will evolve.