Laura (Riding) Jackson

The Library has added six of Laura Riding's books to the Collection. These are:

(1) First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding (Persea Books, 1992) and (2)The Poems of Laura Riding (A newly revised edition of the 1938 and 1980 collection), which includes various prefaces and prose statements. Prose works which have been recently added include the 1928 volume (3) Anarchism is Not Enough (University of California Press, 2001) with a new introduction. Included also are her magnum opus (4) Rational Meaning which was written with her husband Schuyler Jackson, and edited in 1997 by William Harmon. It also includes an Introduction by Charles Bernstein. A Collection of prose pieces she wrote about and after renouncing poetry has just been published (University of Michigan Press, 2007) and edited by John Nolan. It is entitled (5) The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language. Lastly (6) The Laura (Riding) Jackson Reader has been published by Persea in 2005. It includes a wide selection from many of her works, including some of those listed above.