Selected Poems

Selected Poems is compiled from the best works in Jean Garrigue's eight

published collections. Garrigue (1914-72) is recognized as a leading American

poet of the fifties and sixties. Among her awards and honors were a Guggenheim

fellowship and a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant.

"A wildly gifted poet. . . . Garrigue was our one lyric poet who made

ecstasy her home." --Stanley Kunitz

"Her way with language was Mozartian, breathtaking in its ability to

ring change after change on a theme, Mozartian bursts of language, never

leaving the subject, enabling the eye to see clearly, while delighting

the ear with sound." --Harvey Shapiro

"A brilliant poet. Her idiom is modern, yet has a kind of Book of Hours

simplicity." -- Robert Lowell