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Bogan had poetry published in the '''', '' Scribner's '' and '' Atlantic Monthly ''. She was the Poetry reviewer of '' The New Yorker '' from 1931 until 1969 , when she retired. She was a strong supporter of the poet Theodore Roethke . In a letter to Edmund Wilson , she detailed a raucous affair that she and the yet-unpublished Roethke carried on in 1935, during the time between his expulsion from Lafayette College and his return to Michigan . At the time she seemed little impressed by what she called his "very, very small lyrics"; she seems to have viewed the affair as, at most, a possible source for her own work (see ''What the Woman Lived: Collected letters of Louise Bogan''). Because Bogan refused to discuss herself (and disdained such Confessional Poet s as Robert Lowell and John Berryman ), little is known of her personal life. Most of her work was published before 1938 . This includes ''Body of This Death'' (1923), ''Dark Summer'' (1929) and ''The Sleeping Fury'' (1937). She also translated works by Jünger , Goethe , and Jules Renard . A volume of her collected works, ''The Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968'', was published late in her life. She died in New York City in 1970. A number of autobiographical pieces were published posthumously in ''Journey around My Room'' (1980). Ruth Anderson 's Sound Poem ''I Come Out of Your Sleep'' (revised and recorded on Sinopah 1997 XI) is constructed from speech sounds in Bogan's poem ''Little Lobelia''. REFERENCES |
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