Jarrell said that her work had "the guaranteeing and personal queerness of a diary," and many others have remarked on its uniqueness and strangeness. Her poems often describe a process of seeing and present a tide of images and ideas associated with the object seen. Lee Upton remarked on her "restless eye": "the eye is as the self-pouring over surfaces and in effect 'reading' them," and many critics have observed the extravagance of her imagery. Stanley Kunitz described Garrigue as one "whose art took the road of excess that leads to the palace of wisdom. She was our one lyric poet who made ecstasy her home." Bonne August wrote that "Garrigue is a 'difficult' poet, difficult in the formal demands she makes on the reader; difficult, too, in the demands she makes on her poetry: to take her past easy formulations, comfortable insights, or glib prescriptions, to the truth of thing." Jane Mayhall noted her drive to the "dangerously deep levels of self." Garrigue did not belong to a poetic school or movement; Theodore Roethke stated she trusted her poetic instincts more than any poet he knew. Laurence Lieberman has said, "There are rewards to be secured in reading her best poems of a kind that can be found in no other body of work." Harvey Shapiro wrote, "Her way with language was Mozartean, breathtaking in its ability to ring change after change on a theme, Mozartean bursts of language, never leaving the subject, enabling the eye to see, clearly and more clearly, while delighting the ear with sound." Bibliography (Contributor) Five Young American Poets, third series, New Directions, 1944. The Ego and the Centaur (poems), New Directions, 1947, reprinted, Greenwood Press, 1972. (Contributor) Edwin Weaver, editor, Cross-Sections, L. B. Fischer, 1947. (Contributor) New World Writing, New American Library, 1952. The Monument Rose (poems), Noonday Press, 1953. A Water Walk by Villa d'Este (poems), St. Martins, 1959. Country Without Maps (poems), Macmillan, 1964. Marianne Moore, University of Minnesota Press, 1965. The Animal Hotel (novella), Eakins, 1966. New and Selected Poems, Macmillan, 1967. (Editor) Translations by American Poets, Ohio University Press, 1970. Studies for an Actress and Other Poems, Macmillan, 1973. (Compiler) Love's Aspects: The World's Great Love Poems, Doubleday, 1975. Selected Poems, University of Illinois, 1992. References 1912 births 1972 deaths 20th-century American poets Bisexual women American bisexual writers LGBT people from Indiana Writers from Evansville, Indiana Smith College faculty