The instant of knowing : lectures, criticism, and occasional prose /

Josephine Jacobsen, born in 1908, had her first poem published when she was just ten years old. Though Jacobsen has been writing and publishing for almost eighty years, she remained outside the literary world until she was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. She has since...

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Main Author: Jacobsen, Josephine
Other Authors: Spires, Elizabeth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2002
Edition:First paperback edition
Series:Poets on poetry
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