The Blue Estuaries
Poems: 1923-1968
ISBN10: 0374524610
ISBN13: 9780374524616
Trade Paperback
144 Pages
$16.00
CA$22.00
Honored during the course of her literary career with almost every major poetry award, Bogan was also the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. (From the 1930s to her death in 1970, she wrote most of that magazine's poetry reviews.) The Blue Estuaries contains Bogan's five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work, fully representing a unique and distinguished contribution to modern poetry over five decades.
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Praise for The Blue Estuaries
"Behind the Bogan poems is a woman, intense, proud, strong-willed . . . Her poems can be read and reread: they keep yielding new meanings, as all good poetry should. The ground beat of great tradition can be heard, with the necessary and subtle variations. Bogan is one of the true inheritors."—Theodore Roethke
"Now that we can see the sweep of forty-five years' work in this collection of over a hundred poems, we can judge what a feat of character it has been . . . [Bogan's] is a language as supple as it is accurate, dealing with things in their own tones . . . Reading this book with delight, I was struck by a career of stubborn, individual excellence."—William Meredith, The New York Review of Books