Drafts Fragments and Poems

<b>The first appearance of this award-winning writer's work since the 1940s this collection which includes an introduction by John Ashbery restores Joan Murray's striking poetry to its originally intended form.</b><br><br>Though John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a key influence on his work Murray&#146;s sole collection <i>Poems</i> published after her death at the early age of twenty-four and selected by W. H. Auden for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets has been almost entirely unavailable for the better part of half a century. <i>Poems </i>was put together by Grant Code a close friend of Murray&#146;s mother and when Murray&#146;s papers long thought to be lost reappeared in 2013 it became clear that Code had exercised a heavy editorial hand. This new collection edited by Farnoosh Fathi from Murray&#146;s original manuscripts restores Murray&#146;s raw lyricism and visionary lines while also including a good deal of previously unpublished work as well as a selection of her exuberant letters.