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A full-scale biography of the distinguished lyric poet, translator, and critic details the highs and lows of her elegant and sorrowful life and the steady growth and influence of her work. Winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. No library descriptions found. |
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I'm giving this 4.5 stars, not 5, mainly because it seemed to me that the biographer rushed the last 15 to 20 years of her life. I was hoping for more detail about the mature years of this fascinating woman, even though those were not her most productive years as a poet. Bogan also worked for almost 30 years at The New Yorker, as their main poetry reviewer. She also published many book reviews and quite a few short stories.
Her poetry is collected in The Blue Estuaries; her prose, which is intelligent, sometimes harsh and snarky, and overall wonderful, can be found in A Poet's Prose Selected Writings of Louise Bogan. ( )