I must thank Tim for posting this thread. For this youngster, and I suspect for many others, Bogan's name is recognizable but her poems mostly unknown (thanks in part to the lack of anthologization that Janet mentions).
Fortunately, a quick trip to the used bookstore today produced an $8 copy of The Blue Estuaries, and even just a lunchtime's worth of reading demonstrates the gross injustice that she's not at least as well known as, say, Millay.
Yes, what about her life? Why isn't she a "celebrity" poet? The back flap says she was the poetry editor of the NYer for over forty years . . . so it's hard to understand why she's a bit obscure.
Anyway, thanks for the thread.
--CS
P.S. Same shelf at same bookstore provided copies of Mason & Jarman . . . pretty good shelf!
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