Scaffolding

New and Selected Poems

Cooper Jane

"What poetry must do", Jane Cooper has written, "is alert us to a truth, and it must be necessary; once it exists, we realize how much we needed exactly this". "Scaffolding" presents Jane Cooper's new and selected poems gathered over three and a half decades, together with a remarkable autobiographical essay which goes to the heart of the conflicts associated with being a woman and a poet of her generation. Through its generous, imaginative and scrupulous attention to social and artistic truths, Jane Cooper's writing has never been more necessary.

About the Author

Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was born in Atlantic City, NJ. After a childhood in Jacksonville, Florida and Princeton, NJ she studied at Vassar College and the University of Wisconsin. In 1953-1954 she studied for an MA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College from 1950 to 1987, as teacher and poet in residence. "The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed" was published in 2000.

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