View of the wilderness in New Mexico from my friend Anne’s remote home Women Women have no wilderness in them, They are provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread. They do not see cattle cropping red winter grass, They do not hear Snow water going down under […]
Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan: A Poet’s Poet
On a roll here, with another female poet… I was reminded recently by friend and poet Dean J. Baker of the poet Louise Bogan. (One of her poems was posted here on April 4, 2008.) Bogan (1897-1970) grew up in mill towns in Maine. After a year at Boston University and an unhappy early marriage. […]