Bogan, Louise

Bogan, Louise( 1897–1970),
Maine-born poet, lived in New York, whose books include Body of This Death (1923), Dark Summer (1929), The Sleeping Fury (1937), Poems and New Poems (1941), Collected Poems (1954), and The Blue Estuaries (1968). Her volume of Selected Criticism (1955) was extended in A Poet's Alphabet (1970), a posthumous collection. What the Woman Lived (1973) prints her letters. Her spare, sensitive poetry, mostly in traditional forms, is marked by intensity of personal expression and incisive imagery.