whether out of sloth, or diffidence, or scrupulousness ([Elizabeth] Bishop was notoriously exacting about her own work), or because of the usual hard knocks of submission and rejection, Bishop did not publish these poems during her lifetime. And so the decision by another--in this case, New Yorker poetry editor Alice Quinn--to publish the work resembles playing God, in spite of the approval of some, including Robert Giroux and Frank Bidart, who knew Bishop well.
from Karl Kirchwey: Philadelphia Inquirer: History will be judge of poet Bishop's status
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