Jane Cooper : a radiance of attention / Martha Collins and Celia Bland, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collins, Martha, 1940- editor.

Bland, Celia, editor.

Series:

Under discussion.

Under discussion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooper, Jane, 1924-2007--Criticism and interpretation.

Cooper, Jane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Summary:

For her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for nearly forty years, she served as a mentor to many aspiring poets. Her elegant, honest, and emotionally and formally precise poems, often addressing the challenges of women's lives--especially the lives of women in the arts--continue to resonate with a new generation of readers. Martha Collins and Celia Bland bring together several decades' worth of essential writing on Cooper's poetry. While some pieces offer close examination of Cooper's process or thoughtful consideration of the craft of a single poem, the volume also features reviews of her collections, including a previously unpublished piece on her first book, The Weather of Six Mornings (1969), by James Wright, a lifelong champion of her work. Marie Howe, Jan Heller Levi, and Thomas Lux, among others, share personal remembrances of Cooper as a teacher, colleague, and inspiration. L. R. Berger's moving tribute to Cooper's final days closes the volume. This book has much to offer for both readers who already love Cooper's work and new readers, especially among younger poets, just discovering her enduring poems.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction / Celia Bland and Martha Collins; From the Open Sea: Body and Lyric in the Poetry of Jane Cooper / Kazim Ali; "Mercator's World": Jane Cooper's Early Work / Stephen Tapscott; Review of The Weather of Six Mornings / James Wright; The Weather of Six Mornings: Deference and Defiance in Jane Cooper's Debut / Ned Balbo; "Ablaze, Scared Child!" / Jan Heller Levi; The Story the Surface Cannot Say / Marie Howe; Jane Cooper: "The Builder of Houses" / Lee Upton; Jane Cooper's "Reclaimed" Poems / Eric Gudas

"In the Grip of a Difficult Century": Personal and Cultural History in Cooper's Maps & Windows / Clare RossiniMaps & Windows / Lee Briccetti; Endurance / Philip Levine; An Ecstasy of Space / Rachel Hadas; Dreamwords / Jean Valentine; The Fragile Human Settlement / Thomas Lux; "Threads: Rosa Luxemburg from Prison" / Lee Sharkey; Poets House Tribute to Jane Cooper / Galway Kinnell; Notes on Precision: Remembering Jane Cooper / Marilyn Chin; Inhabiting: Lessons from Jane Cooper's Spacious Architectures / Jenny Factor; Angle of Repose: Jane Cooper's Long View / Lisa Sack

Jane Cooper and the Poetics of Sanity / Eve Grubin"The Green Notebook" / Gail Mazur; The Family Stories of Jane Cooper / Lynne Thompson; "I Could Not Tell You": Green Notebook, Winter Road and the Influence of Muriel Rukeyser / Lisa Sperber; Moving toward Connectedness: Jane Cooper's "The Infusion Room" / Maggie Anderson; Hospital Time: On Illness and Caregiving in Jane Cooper's "The Children's Ward" / Carley Moore; "Vocation: A Life" / Kevin Prufer and Patricia Yongue; Jane Cooper: Seventeen Names for Necessity / Beatrix Gates; Ordinary Details: Humor in the Work of Jane Cooper / Celia Bland

A Boat to See by, a Life to Row / Pamela AlexanderThe Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed / David Rigsbee; The Last Poem / L. R. Berger; Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472125296

047212529X