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A Just Longevity, She Says Poet Shrugs Off Her Host Of Awards By RUTH HEIMBUECHER Poet Elizabeth Bishop is modest, to say the least. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, the. National Book Award and dozens other prestigious prizes and fellowships, she has grace to explain them away as "partly a matter of longevity." "If you keep on writing and live long enough, you eventually collect a good many of these," she said. "I'm very pleased at all of them, ELIZABETH BISHOP particularly when they involve large sums of money International Prize for Literature was $10.000, the largest grant she ever received. SHE WAS the first woman and the first American to win the Neustadt.

Tomorrow, Miss Bishop reads her poems for the International Poetry Forum at 8 p.m. in Carnegie Lecture Hall. It's her first trip to Pittsburgh in a well-traveled life. A resident of Boston now, she sailed down the Amazon and visited the Galapagos Islands at a when those places were not as as they are now And she spent 17 years in Brazil as a kind of long-term "woman who came to dinner "I'd planned to go around South America, but I got as far as Brazil and got sick. I was allergic to cashews," she explained.

"I stayed on and on, visiting at a friend's house in the The time was well translating Brazilian poetry. translated "The Diary of 'Helena Morley' by Alice Dayrell Bryant, and she was editor and contributing translator of an "Anthology of Contemporary Brazilian Poetry," published in 1972. Among her honors was the induction last May into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the nation's highest honor society in the arts. She holds a October An October wedding is planned by Kathy J. Kropf and Joseph W.

Rihn. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Kropf and Mr.

and Mrs. Donald J. Brezina, all of the North Side. Miss Kropf is a secretary at Bache, Halsey, Stuart, Shields, Inc. Her fiance is employed by Centre Video, Inc.

Glasspool-Thompson Penn State University seniors chair in the academy marked by a plaque that tells past and present occupants. LIKE MOST POETS, Miss Bishop has not been able to make a living from her work, in spite of obvious success. She inherited a small income from her father who died when she was an infant. "It was enough to put me through college (Vassar, class of 1934)," she said. She taught briefly in Seattle in 1966, and at Harvard from 1970 till last year.

Various prizes and fellowships also helped tide her over. What inspires her to write a poem? "You never know what's going to strike you as something you want to write about, she said. 'And I don't really believe in inspiration as such. "You have an idea in your head for a long time, or a set of sentences and phrases. Then the idea begins to take words and the words begin to make Sometimes the poem takes years to complete, sometimes it goes fast.

"I suppose some poets do work regular hours every day," Miss Bishop said. "I've never been able to. I can write prose by the clock, but not poetry." POEMS are tightly woven and disciplined, with strictly arranged rhymes. Strangely enough, this writer who has won so many prizes, in "One Art" talks about the art of losing. The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster Lose something every day.

Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master I lost two cities, lovely ones.

And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster -Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master. though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster Planned "Brenda Diane Glasspool and Robert E. Thompson are planning to marry in June.

Parents of the couple are and Alfred E. Glasspool and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Thompson, all of Upper St.

Clair. Miss Glasspool is majoring in horticulture, and her fiance is majoring in industrial engineering. The Press. Club Meetings love is Li 1-31 encouraging her interest in ceramics. Love Is contest appears elsewhere in The Westminster College Women's Club will welcome Edwin Tobin, director of Admissions at Westminster College, and Dr.

Earland Carlson, president of the college, as speakers at the mid-winter luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Top of the Triangle, U.S. Steel Building. The Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter of Feb. 7 at Lebanon home of EsAlpha Phi sorority, will meet at 8 p.m.

ther Murphy for election of officers and a special party. The Delta Chaper of Pi Lambda Theta will meet for dinner at 5 p.m. Feb. 8 at L.R.D.C., Oakland to hear Pat Pulling of the Job Advisory Service discuss: "When the Classroom Door Closes, What Do You Do?" The 25th annual smorgasbord, fundraising project of All-Twos and Homebuilders classes of Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church, will be Feb.

4. Members of the Youth Fellowship, Boy Scout Troop No. 1 and Mixers' Class will assist. Tickets must be purhased in advance. Diamonds Joining 'Natural Look' Trend Pittsburgh Press, Jan.

31, 1978 A-11 Camille Sottolano To Wed Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Sottolano of Crafton announce the engagement of Miss Roedler is employed by Vector Beechview announce the engagement of their daughter, Beth Louise, to Dean A. Administration and her fiance is their daughter, Camille Louise, to Keith Muraco, son of Mr. and Mrs.

James E. employed by the Vivano Co. M. Papich, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Muraco of Carnegie. A September wedding is planned. Papich of Harmar Township. Miss Sottolano is a secretary for the Boilermakers Union, and her fiance is a senior at Robert Morris College. A late fall wedding is planned.

Lucas-Bassi The engagement of Paula Jean Lucas to Keith A. Bassi is announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Lucas of Allentown.

Miss Lucas is a registered nurse at South Side Hospital. Mr. Bassi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B.

Bassi of Monongahela, is a senior at Yale University. Buser-Klousnitzer A September wedding is planned by Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduates Karen S. Buser and Donald J. Klousnitzer Jr. Parents of the couple are Mr.

Mrs. John E. Buser of Mt. Lebanon and Mr. and Mrs.

Donald J. Klousniztzer of Castle Shannon. Miss Buser is an assistant buyer for Gimbels, and her fiance is an assistant manager of Hills Department Store, Wheeling, W. Va. Drop-Corridon Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Drop of Turtle Creek announce the engagement of their daughter, Bobbie, to Edward Corridon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Corridon of North Huntingdon. Miss Drop is the owner of Shear Delite Beauty Salon, Turtle Creek, and Mr.

Corridon is employed by Brown and Zortman Machinery Greentree. An October wedding is planned. Mayni-Connelly Mr. and Mrs. Alexander R.

Mayni of White Oak announce the engagement of their daughter, Judith Candice, to John J. Connelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Connelly of Trafford. Miss Mayni is an -ray technician employed by U.S.

Steel Corp. and Mr. Connelly is employed by. Westinghouse Air Brake. November nuptials are planned.

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