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Drafts, Fragments, and Poems: The Complete Poetry (New York Review Books Poets)
Drafts Fragments and Poems The Complete Poetry - New York Review Books Poets Author:Joan Murray The first appearance of this award-winning writer's work since the 1940s, this collection, which includes an introduction by John Ashbery, restores Joan Murray's striking poetry to its originally intended form. — Though John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a key influence on his work, Murray?s sole collection, Poems, published after her death at th... more »e early age of twenty-four and selected by W. H. Auden for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, has been almost entirely unavailable for the better part of half a century. Poems was put together by Grant Code, a close friend of Murray?s mother, and when Murray?s papers, long thought to be lost, reappeared in 2013, it became clear that Code had exercised a heavy editorial hand. This new collection, edited by Farnoosh Fathi from Murray?s original manuscripts, restores Murray?s raw lyricism and visionary lines, while also including a good deal of previously unpublished work, as well as a selection of her exuberant letters.« less