‘For a Child of 1918’: Elizabeth Bishop at Seven Years Old by Jonathan Ellis                                                                              1 ‘Bishop is parenthetical. Her parentheses create emphases even when their purpose is to hesitate not asseverate.’ These are Maureen McLane’s words, not mine, from her astonishingly sharp essay on Elizabeth Bishop and Gertrude Stein in which she reflects on how she came … Continue reading ‘For a Child of 1918’: Elizabeth Bishop at Seven Years Old