Past the Abandoned Railroad
Hardly Anyone in my Family Could Sew
Because of This We Were Late, Everything Got Mixed Up. Later I Broke the Door. Or, the Leaving
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Lyn Lifshin
's most recent prizewinning book, Before It's Light (Paterson
poetry award), was published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press,
following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997. Another
Woman Who Looks Like Me will be published by Black Sparrow books,
published by David Godine in November 2003. Also just published is
A New Film By a Woman In Love with the Dead, March Street Press.
She has published more than 100 books of poetry, including Marilyn
Monroe , Blue Tattoo, won awards for her non fiction and
edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including Tangled Vines,
Ariadne's Thread, and Lips Unsealed. Her poems have
appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject
of an award winning documentary film, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of
Glass, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing,"
has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's
poetry movement." An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical
series, "On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Sheets" was published Spring
2003. She is working on a collection of poems about the famous, short
lived beautiful race horse Ruffian and a new collection called There
Were Days, So Persephone. www.lynlifshin.com |