didn't care to be an American and loathed saluting the flag.) The girl never saw her mother again. Bishop suffered from a streak of perfectionism in a personality pricked with self-doubt and almost paralyzed by shyness--for all her mixed feelings about Emily Dickinson, whose letters Bishop found embarrassing, there was more than a little of the Amherst poet in her character.
from The New York Times: Deal With the Devil
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