Women’s voices offering an intimate view into women’s lives
Lizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestselling author Julianna Baggott, offers poignant commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. The poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes ecstatic, the poems in this collection never fail the trust of the subjects of their intimate portrayals
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Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women's Voices
Women’s voices offering an intimate view into women’s lives
Lizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestselling author Julianna Baggott, offers poignant commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. The poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes ecstatic, the poems in this collection never fail the trust of the subjects of their intimate portrayals
Women’s voices offering an intimate view into women’s lives
Lizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestselling author Julianna Baggott, offers poignant commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. The poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes ecstatic, the poems in this collection never fail the trust of the subjects of their intimate portrayals
Julianna Baggott is the author of the collection of poems This Country of Mothers (published by Southern Illinois University Press) and four novels—the national bestseller Girl Talk, The Miss America Family,The Madam, and Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions, cowritten with Steve Almond. She also writes novels for younger readers under the pen name N. E. Bode. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications including the Best American Poetry series, Glamour, Ms., Poetry, and TriQuarterly. Baggott holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and teaches at Florida State University in the Creative Writing Program and Film School. She lives in Florida with her husband and their three children.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Lori Schappell, a Conjoined Twin, Addresses the Kmart Cashier Who Eyes Her with Too Much Sympathy
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THE ROCKWELL POEMS
Irene, Suicide, Four Years after Divorcing Norman Rockwell and Marrying Francis Hartley, Jr. Mary Rockwell, after the Abortion Mary Rockwell, 1950 Mary Rockwell after Her Son Is Accidentally Stabbed While Fencing To Mary Rockwell, now dead
? Mary Todd on Her Deathbed Marie Laurent Pasteur Addresses Louis in Her Mind While She Scalds the Sheets Marie Laurent Pasteur Watches Louis Walk to the Kennels after His Stroke Mary Cassatt, Going Blind, Crosses Her Room Katharine Hepburn in the Attic with Her Dead Brother
THE BEURET-CLAUDEL-RODIN POEMS Rose Beuret in a Cool Bath While a Servant Reads the Society Pages to Her Camille Claudel Bathing in the Lake near Chateau D'Islette Camille Claudel Does Not Want to See the Baby Camille Claudel in Her Studio in Quai Bourbon Camille Claudel Refuses to Sculpt Clay Given to Her by Sister Saint Hildefonse at the Asylum After a Trip to the Dentist with Sister Saint Hildefonse, Camille Claudel Returns to the Asylum Camille Claudel Dies after Thirty Years in the Asylum
? For Sylvia: Come Winter. Come, Winter. Minna Edison Listens to Her Husband Give a Lecture around the Time He Is Deciding to Disown Thomas Edison, Jr., Minna's Stepson Margaret Sanger Addresses the Ghost of Ida Craddock Monica Lewinsky Thinks of Bill Clinton While Standing Naked in Front of a Hotel Mirror Mrs. Dali
THE BORDEN POEMS Lizzie Borden Addresses Her Jury of Men Lizzie Borden in Love The Night Lizzie Borden Dies
? The Lion Tamer's Wife after the Lion's Escape from the Motordome Dorothy Day's Daughter, Pregnant with Her Ninth Child, Begs Her Mother for Charity: A Bedtime Prayer Marie Curie Gives Advice to Her Daughter Irene before Her Wedding The Mule-Faced Woman, 1926 Ethel Waters' Mother, Louise-Raped at Twelve-Cannot Listen to Her Daughter Sing 'His Eye Is on the Sparrow' Ida Saxton McKinley, the First Lady, Seizes during a Dinner Party
