Bishop’s maternal
family was an essential element in her childhood, and not only the most
immediate members, but also distant relatives such as her Great-Uncle George W.
Hutchison, a painter and illustrator who lived in England. He was very much
alive during her early years in the village. Her poem “Poem” describes a small
painting he did of Great Village, one Bishop was given and kept until her
death. This painting was a nexus of contemplation and an aesthetic force, for
Bishop. And in the poem it generated she asks one of her most penetrating and
mysterious questions, as Natallia shows in this image of echoes.
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