Louise Bogan
American poet who served as poetry critic of The New Yorker for 38 years. Her compressed, formal lyric poems are among the finest by any American woman of the twentieth century.
Works
- Body of This DeathEarly poems on women's desire, mortality, and formal control
- Dark SummerPoems exploring grief, passion, and emotional intensity
- The Sleeping FuryPoems on anger, female power, and the inner life awakened
- Poems and New PoemsRetrospective selected poems showing Bogan's range across decades
- The Blue EstuariesCollected poems from a modernist master of intricate formal verse and emotional restraint