A new book is due out this September by the poet Julianna Baggott. Its title is Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women’s Voices. It is published by Southern Illinois University Press. Says the Fall and Winter 2006 catalogue:
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 estatic, the poems in this collection never fail the trust of the subjects of their intimate portrayals.
Baggott is the author of This Country of Mothers, a collection of poems, and four novels. She also writes novels for young adults under the pen name N.E. Bode.
