The Blue Estuaries (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Bogan
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Long fiction, Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Sex or sexuality, Psychology or psychologists, Poetry or poets, Spiritual life or spirituality, Child abuse, Devils or demons, Subconscious, Poetics
Form and Content
The Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968, Louise Bogan’s final collection, contains 105 poems and spans the entire body of her adult work. The book’s six-part division corresponds to the six volumes of poems that Bogan published between 1923 and 1968. As a body of work, the poems express the poet’s quest for the secrets of the buried self, or unconscious, specifically to make her peace with the frustrations of romantic love (and the persistent sense of loss and betrayal associated with it) and with her traumatic childhood.
The opening poem, “A...
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