Body of This Death

Name: Body of This Death
Author: Louise Bogan

by Louise Bogan

Early poems on women's desire, mortality, and formal control

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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.

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