Maps & Windows: Poems

by Jane Cooper

Book

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Jane Cooper was an American poet born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Cooper attended Vassar College from 1942 to 1944, and earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1946. In 1953–54 Cooper took a year off to get an M.A. at the University of Iowa, where she studied with Robert Lowell, and John Berryman in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Cooper joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, in 1950, and remained as a teacher and poet in residence until her retirement in 1987. She held the post of New York State Poet from 1995 to 1997. She died on October 26, 2007, of complications due to Parkinson's Disease.

Reviews

[Anne (Not of Green Gables)]

Jane Cooper now has my heart.

[SmarterLilac]

Wow! These textured, moving poems accomplish so much with such spare language. Cooper's own thoughts on the craft of poetry, included in the middle of this text, are fascinating.