Further Reading
- "Josephine Jacobsen." Glasgow Herald (12 July 2003): 14. (Comments on the career and death of Jacobsen.)
- "Personal Poetry." Saturday Review 37 (16 January 1954): 21. (Favorable review of The Human Climate.)
- Brainard, Dulcy. "Review of In the Crevice of Time, by Josephine Jacobsen." Publishers Weekly 242, no. 17 (24 April 1995): 66. (Laudatory review of In the Crevice of Time.)
- Hacker, Marilyn. "Review of The Sisters, by Josephine Jacobsen." Nation 245, no. 18 (28 November 1987): 644. (Praises The Sisters and the short story collection Adios, Mr. Moxley.)
- Heller, Michael. "Owls, Monkeys and Spiders in Space." New York Times Book Review 93 (12 June 1988): 15. (Positive assessment of The Sisters.)
- Ivry, Benjamin. "An Appreciation; Josephine Jacobsen's Legacy: The Physical Thrill of Poetry." New York Times (19 July 2003): B14. (Examines the physical nature of Jacobsen's verse.)
- Jacobsen, Josephine, and Janet Palmer Mullaney. "Josephine Jacobsen." In Truthtellers of the Times: Interviews with Contemporary Women Poets, edited by Janet Palmer Mullaney, pp. 47-55. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. (Discusses the “essence of poetry” and the role of the poet in society.)
- Mason, David. "Review of In the Crevice of Time, by Josephine Jacobsen." Hudson Review 49 (Spring 1996): 168-69. (Positive review in which Mason states that "In the Crevice of Time is worth buying and going back to.")
- Oates, Joyce Carol. "Two Poets." New York Times Book Review 131 (4 April 1982): section 7, p. 13, 28-9. (Excerpt extolling Jacobsen's The Chinese Insomniacs.)
- Osterhaus, Joe. "Review of In the Crevice of Time, by Josephine Jacobsen." Boston Review (1997). (Laudatory review of In the Crevice of Time. Osterhaus also discusses Jacobsen's development as a poet.)
- Review of The Chinese Insomniacs, by Josephine Jacobsen. New York Times Book Review 132 (5 December 1982): section 7, p. 54. (Brief review of The Chinese Insomniacs.)
- Review of What Goes Without Saying, by Josephine Jacobsen. Publishers Weekly 243, No. 47 (November 18, 1996): 64. (Brief positive review in which the critic calls the short stories in the volume "small, highly polished gems.")
- Saxon, Wolfgang. "Ontario-Born Writer Became Poet Laureate of U.S." Montreal Gazette (14 July 2003): E16. (Biographical sketch of Jacobsen.)
- Smith, William Jay. "The Lenore Marshall Prize." Nation 247, no. 10 (17 October 1988): 351. (Documents the awarding of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Jacobsen's The Sisters.)
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