Elizabeth Bishop

She was born in 1911 - Worcester, Massachusetts. Her life started pretty badly when her father died and soon after that her mother was sent to a mental hospital. Her grandparents took care of her after that and in 1934 she graduated in Vassar College.
Elizabeth Bishop was a traveler. She crossed Europe, Africa and then moved to Florida to spend 4 years there. That made her poetry express the passion of a traveler and we can read about many plots which surrounded her as she moved from place to place.
We can see that in her poems like for example in “At the Fishhouses” :

All is silver: the heavy surface of the sea,
swelling slowly as if considering spilling over,
is opaque, but the silver of the benches,
the lobster pots, and masts, scattered
among the wild jagged rocks,
is of an apparent translucence
like the small old buildings with an emerald moss
growing on their shoreward walls.

Many years she spent in Brazil but she didn’t published many books. She wrote from time to time not too many poems and her Collected Poems collected hardly 100 of them. Still - her technical mastery was brilliant. In 1964 she was awarded the Fellowship of The Academy of American Poets.
She died in 1979 back in the place where she started writing - Massachusetts. Till that final day she served as a Chancellor.
She left us with a lineage of beautiful, brilliant poetry which keep her place in our mind as a writer who only with a few words showed us the world she used to see.