Poetry. "[O]ne feels that these poems accrue to the sum of a life, a life lived with absolute attention and fierce presence. Nothing is left out. This is Bishop's Last Door. She has walked bravely through it and--how lucky for us--she has left it open to her vast and compelling world"--Frank X. Gaspar. Wendy Bishop was an internationally known writer and researcher in the field of rhetoric and composition as well as a widely published poet. She died in 2003.