Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box : uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments / Elizabeth Bishop ; edited by Alice Quinn.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-364).

"I introduce Penelope Gwin..." -- "Once on a hill I met a man..." -- "A lovely finish I have seen..." -- Good-bye-- -- For a pair of eyebrows-- -- Apologia -- A warning to salesmen -- Washington as a surveyor -- Three poems -- Song - for the clavichord -- In the tower -- Valentine V -- "The past..." -- "We went to the dark cave of the street-corner..." -- Luxembourg Gardens -- In a room -- Naples, Fla-- '36 -- "What would be worst of all..." -- Villanelle -- "Under such heavy clouds of love..." -- Dream-- -- Florida -- Money -- Valentine -- "We hadn't meant to spend so much time..." -- "From the shallow night-long graves..." -- The street by the cemetery -- "It is marvellous to wake up together..." -- Florida deserta -- For A.B. -- The salesman's evening -- Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box -- Key west -- Hannah A. -- After the rain -- The soldier and the slot-machine -- Full moon, key west -- "The walls went on for years & years..." -- Stove & clocks -- Little thaw in January -- "Don't you call me that word, honey..." -- Current dreams -- The museum -- The traveller to Rome -- Dear Dr.-- -- "I had a bad dream..." -- "In the golden early morning..." -- "In a cheap hotel..." -- To the admirable Miss Moore -- Homesickness -- The owl's journey -- On the Prince of Fundy -- Crossing the equator -- Young man in the park -- For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia -- Syllables -- "Where are the dolls who loved me so..." -- A short, slow life -- Suicide of a moderate dictator -- To Manuel Bandeira, with jam and jelly -- The grandmothers -- St. John's Day -- The moon burgled the house -- A baby found in the garbage -- Letter to two friends -- New Year's letter as Auden says -- Foreign-domestic -- Miami -- Keaton -- Mimoso, near death -- Brasil, 1959 -- On the Amazon -- "Let Shakespeare & Milton..." -- (For the window-pane) -- The blue chairs (that dream) -- Gypsophilia -- To the brook -- All afternoon the freighters - Rio -- Mimosas in bloom -- Rainy day, Rio. -- Apartment in Leme -- Something I've meant to write about for 30 years -- For T.C.B. -- "Dear, my compass..." -- "Close close all night..." -- The pretender -- Inventory -- "Far far away there, where I met..." -- Aubade and elegy -- A drunkard -- Vague poem (vaguely love poem) -- For Grandfather -- Swan-boat ride -- "A mother made of dress-goods..." -- Breakfast song -- Belated dedication -- Memory of Baltimore -- Travelling, a love poem -- Salem willows -- Just north of Boston -- Dicky and sister -- (Florida revisited?) -- Sammy -- Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle -- Mechanics of pretence : remarks on W. H. Auden -- Verdigris -- Homesickness -- True confessions -- Suicide of a (moderate) dictator - a report in verse & prose -- Mrs. Sullivan downstairs -- "Writing poetry is an unnatural act..." -- Making the wallpaper come off the wall -- The fairy toll-taker -- Ungracious poem -- Notes on the "elegy" poem -- Drafts of "one art"

Poems from youth -- 1929-1936 : college, New York, Europe, Florida -- 1937-1950 : Key West, New York, Yaddo, Nova Scotia, Washington, D.C. -- 1951-1967 : Brazil, Seattle, New York -- 1968-1979 : San Francisco, Ouro Preto, Cambridge, Boston.