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