Jean Nordhaus

Born: 14 November 1939

Poet Jean Nordhaus earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Barnard College and a PhD in German literature from Yale University. She is the author of The Music of Being (Broadstone Books, 2023), Memos from the Broken World (2016), Innocence (2006), The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn (2002), A Bracelet of Lies (1987), and the poetry chapbook A Language of Hands (1982). (Source)

Poems by Jean Nordhaus

I Was Always Leaving by Jean Nordhaus

April 6, 2011

"The dome I cowered under / would be raised, and I would be released / into my true life." — Jean Nordhaus