About Jane Cooper
Lived 1924 – 2007 (aged 83). Jane Cooper was an American poet and writer.
Jane Cooper (October 9, 1924 – October 26, 2007) was an American poet.
Awards Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Maurice English Poetry Award (1985) Shelley Memorial Award (1977) Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College - Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship - (1960) Ingram Merrill Award National Endowment for the Arts - Fellowship Lamont Poetry Prize (1968) for The Weather of Six Mornings
Works The Blue Anchor; The Earthquake; Ordinary Detail; In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman; Rent; The Winter Road (Part 4); The Flashboat, Norton Poets online
Books The Weather of Six Mornings (1969), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Maps and Windows (1974) Scaffolding: Selected Poems (1993) Green Notebook, Winter Road (1994), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed (W. W. Norton & Company, 1999)
Edited Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers (1982) The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Complete Poems of Robert Winner (1994)
Memories Memories of Jane Cooper, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 12, 2008 Memories of Jane Cooper part 2, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 14, 2008
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Who was Jane Cooper?
American poet (1924-2007)
When was Jane Cooper born?
Jane Cooper was born on 9 October 1924 in Atlantic City.
When did Jane Cooper die?
Jane Cooper died on 26 October 2007 in Newtown.
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Jane Cooper was a poet and writer.
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Jane Cooper was American.
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