Organizing disarray …

… So Then Assemble Me: On Dana Greene’s “Elizabeth Jennings: ‘The Inward War’” - Los Angeles Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 There is much to celebrate in this biography. Dana Greene has avoided the temptation to savage her subject as Lawrance Thompson did Robert Frost and Andrew Motion did Philip Larkin. Unlike recent biographers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Richard Wilbur, she has largely kept her own ego out of her work. Most importantly, she has brought order to the disorder of Jennings’s life and carefully documented it.