Dark Summer

Name: Dark Summer
Author: Louise Bogan

by Louise Bogan

Poems exploring grief, passion, and emotional intensity

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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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