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Intimate Look at a Private Poet
Bogan was quite guarded about her private life, though she lived life large. Her poetry output, though acclaimed, was small, because she demanded absolute perfection before letting her work reach the public. This book,edited excerpts from her deliciously written journals, lets us enter theworld of her thoughts and emotions, and informs us about her childhood andlater years. Reminiscent of Eudora Welty'sOne Writer's Beginnings, thisbook stands on its ownas an introduction to the life of a writer,particularly a woman writer. It wil serve well both Bogan fans and those towhom she is an unknown., ... Read more

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Traditional literary scholarship has identified Louise Bogan as a formal poet whose work is intimately bound with psychic detachment. That is, the precision with which she executes multiple poetic forms may suggest her attempt to maintain emotional distance through technical prescripts. This book, however, takes a new approach, reinterpreting Louise Bogan's formal poems as the integration of music and poetry. The composition of music's rhythms and aural topography inform the poem's construction, which results in language that approximates pure music. This negotiation between the two art forms invites a critical analysis of aestheticism and the implications of such artistic hybridity. For this reason, this book would prove a good resource for interdisciplinary students as well as those studying solely literary criticism. However, any reader generally interested in Louise Bogan or modernist poetry would also find this book an intriguing and refreshing argument. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1045 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan.(Book Review)
Author: Danielle Chapman
Publication: Poetry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 186Issue: 5Page: 450(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Louise Bogan, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 3019 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 778 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mary Kinzie's Bogan.(Louise Bogan A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan)(Book Review)
Author: Anthony J. Cuda
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24Issue: 3Page: 76(2)

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An Anthology of Women Poets that includes: Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, H.D., Louise Bogen, and Muriel Rukeyser.

Each audio production is accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) After attending Radcliffe College, Gertrude Stein lived abroad, mostly in Paris, for the rest of her life.Her home became a cultural salon for writers and artists.Even among Cubist painters who were her friends, her work stands out for its boldness and invention.She turned English on its head with results both witty and enigmatic.In addition to her poetry she wrote novels, memoirs, history, and libretti.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was born in Rockland, Maine to her self-sufficient single mother and three sisters.At her mother’s urging, she entered her poem “Renascence” into a contest: she won fourth place bringing her immediate acclaim and scholarship to Vassar.
While there she continued to write poetry and became involved in the theater.In 1917, Millay published her first book, Renascence and Other Poems.At the request of Vassar’s drama department, she wrote her first verse play, The Lamp and the Bell in 1921.
Millay moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, where she led a notoriously bohemian life.In 1920 she published A Few Figs from Thistles, a volume of poetry which drew much attention for its controversial descriptions of female sexuality and feminism.Her fourth volume of poetry The Harp Weaver (1921) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Millay married Eugen Boissevain in 1923.Their marriage ended in 1949 with Boissevain’s death.Edna St. Vincent Millay died in 1950 of heart failure.

H.D. (1886-1961) was born Hilda Doolittle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.She attended Bryn Mawr as a classmate of Marianne Moore, and later the University of Pennsylvania where she befriended Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.In 1911, she traveled to Europe intending only to stay for a summer, but remained abroad for the rest of her life.Through Pound, she grew interested in and quickly became the leader of the Imagist movement.Some of her earliest poems gained recognition when they were published by Harriet Monroe in Poetry.
Her work is characterized by the intense strength and intensity of her images, economy of language, and use of classical mythology.Her poems did not receive widespread recognition due in part to the limits of being associated with the Imagist movement, as well as her feminist principles, which were not readily acceptable at the time.She died in 1961.

Louise Bogen

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