© by Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979)
The fish
Language: English
I caught a tremendous fish [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by William Bolcom (b. 1938), "The fish", 1990, first performed 1991 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from I Will Breath a Mountain: A Song Cycle from American Women Poets, no. 11. [text verified 1 time]
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