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.