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Jane Cooper


Born
in Atlantic City, New Jersey, The United States
October 09, 1924

Died
October 26, 2007


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.
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The Flashboat: Poems Collec...
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Green Notebook, Winter Road
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Maps & Windows: Poems
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Scaffolding: Selected Poems
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Weather of Six Mornings: Poems
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“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.”
― Jane Cooper
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“Named for an island in the remote St Kilda archipelago in the North Atlantic, around 50 miles west of the Western Isles of Scotland where a feral flock still survives, the Boreray are very different in appearance, characteristics and behaviour from modern sheep breeds. Surviving bones and a genotype study have demonstrated the close similarity between Neolithic sheep and the primitive sheep breeds that have survived around the edges of Britain, mostly on Scotland’s islands.”
― Jane Cooper, The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman's Journey to Save Scotland's Original Sheep
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“In her book Woven into the Earth, Else Østergård discusses how much wool was needed each year to provide a family with their clothing and blankets. Possibly 5 kilogrammes of wool per person, which would allow for the durability of wool garments. But then there are all the additional requirements for wool, including wool tents and wadmal cloth being used as currency in the Nordic region, Scotland and Ireland. This all adds up to a lot of sheep. It has been calculated that in order to produce the required annual crop of wool to supply all the needs of the population, the combined Viking flocks would have needed to total two million sheep.”
― Jane Cooper, The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman's Journey to Save Scotland's Original Sheep
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