I Became Alone: Five Women Poets

by Judith Thurman

Explores five women poets, ranging from Sappho to Emily Dickinson, through brief biographies and selections of their poetry.

Genres: Poetry, Biography

140 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Judith Thurman began contributing to The New Yorker in 1987, and became a staff writer in 2000. She writes about fashion, books, and culture. Her subjects have included André Malraux, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Cristóbal Balenciaga.

Thurman is the author of “Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller,” which won the 1983 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, and “Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette,” (1999), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography, and the Salon Book Award for biography. The Dinesen biography served as the basis for Sydney Pollack’s movie “Out of Africa.” A collection of her New Yorker essays, “Cleopatra’s Nose,” was published in 2007.

Thurman lives in New York.

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Reviews

[Sofia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved learning more about the lives of these poets and this was a great selection of poetry. I wished that more of each poet's work had been here, though. It felt like such a small sampling and at times a strange selection. I would hope that for such a short book these author's most prominent poems would be featured alongside lesser-known ones, but it honestly was too short to have contained those. I suppose this book is great in that I now am looking for longer collections for the artists I found here.

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