Volume 22, Number 13 · August 7, 1975
The Return of Laura Riding
By Paul Auster
Selected Poems: In Five Sets
by Laura Riding
Norton, 94 pp., $1.95 (paper)
The Telling
by Laura (Riding) Jackson
Harper & Row, 185 pp., $6.95
Laura Riding was still in her thirties when she published her 477-page Collected Poems in 1938. At an age when most poets are just beginning to come into their own she had already reached maturity, and the list of her work up to that time is impressive: nine volumes of poetry, several collections of critical essays and fiction, a long novel, and the founding of a small publishing house, the Seizin Press. As early as 1924, soon after her graduation from Cornell, The Fugitive had called her 'the discovery of the year, a new figure in American poetry,' and later, in Europe, during the period of her intimate and stormy relationship with Robert Graves, she became an important force of the international avant-garde.
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