Joan Murray - Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (Discounted)

Name: Joan Murray - Drafts, Fragments, and Poems (Discounted)
Brand: NYRB Poets
SKU: NYRB-0002
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Drafts, Fragments, and Poems: The Complete Poetry by Joan Murray, preface by John Ashbery, edited by Farnoosh Fathi / ISBN 9781681371825 / 256-page paperback from NYRB Poets / cover scuffs and a red dot on the page edges

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Though John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a key influence on his work, Murray’s sole collection, Poems, published after her death at the 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manuscripts, restores Murray’s raw lyricism and visionary lines, while also including a good deal of previously unpublished work, as well as a selection of her exuberant letters.

"Murray’s book seems to me a startling achievement for a poet who died at an even younger age than Keats, a month short of her twenty-fifth birthday.... The improbable poetic adventures her Poems offers have slipped into oblivion, like Eurydice, almost without a ripple."—Mark Ford, Poetry

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