These monologues are always humanist, poetic without being poeticized, and unpreachily feminist. “With crispness and casual elegance, Baggott inhabits a startling variety of personalities and idioms. This is a brilliant book and an essential read for both lovers of poetry and scholars wishing to understand the inheritance of silence that is the complicated birthright of contemporary women artists everywhere.”- Erin Belieu, author of One Above and One Below and Black Box “Baggott's positively oracular channeling of voices as diverse as Camille Claudel and Monica Lewinsky is so canny and artfully authentic that it seems possible that the poet here has truly acted as a spiritual medium for the muted and misrepresented voices she illuminates. Lizzie Borden in Love is a dangerous and elegant collection from one of America's finest young poets.” - Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Great with Child and Tender Hooks In reopening their lives, she is reopening history, retelling it intimately and urgently and wisely in the voices of the women themselves.Baggott's talent is almost spooky. Part biographer, part ventriloquist, part genius, she inhabits characters we thought we knew-from Katharine Hepburn toHelen Keller. “Julianna Baggott amazes with the scope of her imagination. 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.
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