Bogan, “Women”
To read Robert Pinsky’s post on Louise Bogan’s poem “Women,” visit the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog.
Unlike her elders T.S. Eliot and Marianne Moore, and unlike her juniors Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Louise Bogan was born into the working class. Her father was a mill worker. She won admission to Boston’s excellent Girl’s Latin public school, then college, but she dropped out after her freshman year and married a soldier. The marriage ended within a couple of years. . . . (cont.)
Originally published in the Robert Pinsky Poetry Forum, September 18, 2013.