Notebook Collage with "Woody" Hockaday

From Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive by Bethany Hicok

  • Scrapbook page featuring newspaper clippings, including a photo of Woody Hockaday, a photo of an unidentified man with a mustache in a bathing costume, and an article about Nazi-designed costumes for East Prussians.
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  • LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBT
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  • 1934–37
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  • In the November 1936 section of the 1934-1937 Cuttyhunk notebook, Bishop combines her journal entries with a collaged image of a mustachioed bather and an image of “Woody” Hockaday, who was known for throwing bags of feathers on public figures. (VC 72.3; Courtesy of Vassar College)