Jane Cooper

She dedicated the book to Jane Cooper , Muriel Rukeyser , a friend lost track of named Eileen, and in loving memory of Zora Neale Hurston , Nella Larsen , and Jean Toomer , the...

At Sarah Lawrence, she wrote later, everyody understood that writing was about your heart and your soul and . . nobody cared about what you wore or if your hair was done the right way....

AW 's teacher Jane Cooper called this story (much discussed by Sarah Lawrence students) remarkable for its complexity, force, and daring.

The Christian Science Monitor review praised the collection both for universality and for specificity of description.Jane Cooper found it a wonderful book, in which the grief opens bottomlessly through the violence and the...