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Synopsis
Selected Poems is compiled from the best works in Jean Garrigue's eight published collections. It also includes some uncollected poems drawn from the archive of her manuscripts in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library.
From its beginning, Garrigue's poetry reveals a remarkable richness and originality of imagery combined with an emotional intensity approaching transcendence. Human love in all its dimensions is a continuing preoccupation of her work, yet her feeling for the natural world, and especially for animals, runs equally deep. Her later work moves outward to wider perspectives on travel, politics, art, and literature itself, while exploring the philosophical questions of permanence and change, the role of the artist in an indifferent world, and the struggle of the spirit with the fact of death. Garrigue's lyrical vein broadens into a long, meditative lyric, often fused with a richly detailed evocation of place, that recalls some of the greatest poems of her Romantic predecessors.
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"A wildly gifted poet... Garrigue was our one lyric poet who made ecstasy her home." -- Stanley Kunitz
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Selected Poems is compiled from the best works in Jean Garrigue's eight published collections. Garrigue (1914-72) is recognized as a leading American poet of the fifties and sixties. Among her awards and honors were a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant.
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Selected Poems : Jean Garrigue
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University of Illinois Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0252018591
ISBN 13: 9780252018596
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Selected Poems (First Edition)
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University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1992
ISBN 10: 0252018591
ISBN 13: 9780252018596
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line including the 1. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy, new and unread, without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Although not marked as such in any way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. This copy is one from a box of author copies, new in the box, unopened. Seller Inventory # McClatchy-21-1