Laura Riding: Selected Poems in Five Sets
- ISBN-10
- 0892551895
- ISBN-13
- 9780892551897
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 94
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Persea Books
- Author
- Laura
Description
Laura (Riding) Jackson is recognized as one of America's great modernist poets although she renounced the writing of poetry in 1941, viewing poetry as "blocking truth's ultimate verbal harmonies." First published in England in 1970 and long out of print, Selected Poems: In Five Sets includes sixty-one poems personally selected and arranged by the author. Drawn from her Collected Poems of 1938, this is a remarkable distillation of Laura Riding's poetic achievement. The extraordinary preface is perhaps Laura (Riding) Jackson's most succinct explanation of her renunciation of the writing of poetry, and is a provocative commentary on the contemporary poetry scene. --Persea Books.
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