Her first collection of poems North and South was published in 1946 and her second, nine years later Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring won the Pulitzer Prize.
As a young woman, she became friends with Marianne Moore, but unlike Moore, her reputation was rather minimal during her lifetime. Her first collection of poems North and South was published in 1946 and her second, nine years later Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring won the Pulitzer Prize.