2014 Biography documentary
USA/Canada/Brazil
1h 19min
This feature documentary focuses on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911 -- 79), life in the shadows, and the anxiety of making art without full self-disclosure. Interviews with poets, friends, and scholars provide "missing documents" of Bishop's numerous female lovers. Her intimate poetry, beautifully performed by Kathleen Chalfant and accompanied by creative music composition by Joan La Barbara, brings Bishop into our lives with new facts and unexpected details.
| Directed by | Barbara Hammer |
| Written by | Barbara Hammer |