The Blue Estuaries

Name: The Blue Estuaries
Author: Louise Bogan

by Louise Bogan

Collected poems from a modernist master of intricate formal verse and emotional restraint

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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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