Green Notebook, Winter Road

Green Notebook, Winter Road is the first new work in ten years from one of America’s most eloquent poets. Grace Paley called Jane Cooper’s Selected Poems, Scaffolding, ‘a beautiful and stubborn book of poems… The poems say only what they mean. They have about them a great deep patience for the whole truth, a waiting in quietness for tremor and explosion.’ That same concern for truth, as passionate as it is subtle, marks this new collection from Jane Cooper, as she examines friendship, ageing, the lives of girls and women, the humour and ‘complex shame’ of a white Southern heritage, illness, and the enduring mysteries of art.