Threads: Rosa Luxemburg From Prison

by Jane Cooper

NF but darkened along paper spine, Green titles, stapled booklet, loosely inserted rare acknowledgment sheet, 16pps, inscribed on tp by author to 'Carl and Hortense': Hortense Calisher (1911 – 2009) an American writer of fiction and the second female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The New York Times opined that her "unpredictable turns of phrase, intellectually challenging fictional situations and complex plots captivated and puzzled readers for a half-century. Failure and isolation were themes that ran through her 23 novels and short-story failure of love, marriage, communication, identity. Her peers seemed most intrigued by her distinctive way of telling a story, her filigreed sentences and bold stylistic excursions. Her husband Curtis Harnack was a novelist and teacher involved with the artists' community Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, serving as the community's president between 1971 and 1987. He died in 2013. Jane 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 in 2007). She met Harnack at SL and at the artists' community at Yadoo. Here are nice associations between author and inscribees.

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Published January 1, 1978

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