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Selected Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Jean Garrigue came to prominence at the end of what some consider to be America’s last great literary era. Born just before World War I, her first book appeared in 1944, and she wrote and published steadily and strongly during the 1950’s and 1960’s, when American literary culture, as evidenced by the relative health of literary journals, was not yet in full decline. Befriended and enthused over by such luminaries as Marianne Moore and Delmore Schwartz, Garrigue only slowly gained the confidence to match her perfectionist aspirations. The selection of her poetry (she was also a...

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