Jane Cooper
Jane Cooper (October 9, 1924 – October 26, 2007) was an American poet.
Jane Cooper
- Born
- 9 October 1924
- Birthplace
- Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Died
- 26 October 2007
- Place of death
- Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Occupation
- Poet
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · Shelley Memorial Award
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• Born — 9 October 1924 • Birthplace — Atlantic City, New Jersey • Died — 26 October 2007 • Place of death — Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania • Occupation — Poet
Works
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
Edited
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
• 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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1924
Jane Cooper born at Atlantic City.
2007
Jane Cooper died at Newtown.
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• 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)
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
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Jane Cooper is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship and Shelley Memorial Award.
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