Scaffolding: Selected Poems

by Jane Cooper

Book by Cooper, Jane

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Elisabeth Bialosky · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this book up at a second hand store just because I needed something new to read and I thought I had heard of her collection before. I actually really love Jane Cooper's poems and how so many of them cement in between prose, poetic, and stream of consciousness in a way that is purely bred of academia. I'm so glad I picked this book up!