Jane Ellen Mead

On the National Book Award Longlist for Poetry 2016"World of Made and Unmade is a deep blue yarn of very fine thread. We know much of poetry ever was and ever shall be elegiac. Jane Mead’s poem could be neither more literal nor nearer the verge of appearing a little too perfect for this world. As t...

Jane Mead was educated at Vassar College, Syracuse University, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught at several schools in the San Francisco Bay area, at Colby College, and in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, In 1991, State Street Press published her long poem "A Truck Marked ...

"It's a beautiful, seamless book that never stops gathering force—one in which the strength, brilliance, and movement of the phrase is the ultimate ecosystem."—Cole Swensen"I feel utterly transported in Mead's presence, surrounded by—and imbued in—her language."—Nick FlynnA striking combination of t...

These lyric elegies, spoken by the “under-self,” become a series of subtle chants which sing the speaker into being both physically and spiritually, and through which Mead seeks solace, enlightenment, and joy in the cycles of life and death in the natural world.

A collection of poems which remind readers that the old debates about fate and free will, nature and nurture, are also matters of personal urgency.

Book by Mead, Jane

This digital document, covering the life and work of Jane Mead, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 593 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from t...