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The obituary poets were, in the popular stereotype, either women or clergymen. [12] Obituary poetry may be the source of some of the murder ballads and other traditional narrative verse of the United States, and the sentimental tales told by the obituary poets showed their abiding vitality a hundred years later in the genre of teenage tragedy ...
An obituary in Justice stated that it would "always be said of Gregory that he was never afraid of his convictions or of giving forceable expression to them." [ 8 ] The Western Daily Press described Gregory as "one of the Grand Old Men of Bristol, for he devoted the greater part of his life to the betterment of the people and to interpreting ...
Born in Carson City, Michigan, US, Knott received his MFA from Norwich University and studied with John Logan in Chicago. [1]His first collection of poems, The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans, was published in 1968 under the name Saint Geraud, a fictional persona whose backstory included a suicide two years prior to the publishing.
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Linda Pastan (May 27, 1932 – January 30, 2023) was an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. [1] She was known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the fragility of life and relationships.
In a career cut short by illness and suicide, Byron Herbert Reece produced an enduring body of poetry and fiction from the sounds and spirits of his North Georgia homeland. His five volumes of verse draw deeply from the lyrical wellsprings of Nature and the Bible, twin legacies of an upbringing in the agricultural uplands of Union County ...
John Caddy was born in Hibbing, Minnesota on November 15, 1937, and grew up in Virginia, Minnesota.His great-grandfather, Hibbing Pioneer Tom Caddy, was a Mine Captain from Upper Michigan via Cornwall who sank the first underground mine shafts in Hibbing.
Holm is the author of twelve books of poems and essays: [9] Boxelder Bug Variations: A Meditation on an Idea in Language and Music, 1985 ISBN 0-915943-43-3; The Music of Failure, 1986; Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays, 1990 ISBN 978-0-915943-42-5; The Dead Get By with Everything, 1991 ISBN 0-915943-55-7
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