The Close Chaplet

by Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding Gottschalk, Laura Riding

Poetry. Long out of print, THE CLOSE CHAPLET is Laura Riding's first book, originally published in 1926. Riding deliberately ceased writing poems after 1940, when she came to see poetry as irrevocably flawed as a means of expression. These poems demonstrate Riding's early desire to depart from "the close and well-tilled ground" of traditional lyric poetry. According to her biographer, Elizabeth Friedman, "many of the poems for THE CLOSE CHAPLET...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946433438
• ISBN13: 9781946433435
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.7"