Shomer Enid Shomer

Stars at Noon (eBook, PDF)

Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran

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Produktbeschreibung

These poems give voice to the life of the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. While Jacqueline Cochran was alive, no man or woman in the world could match her records for speed, distance, and altitude flying. Founder and director of the Women s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, Cochran continued to fly competitively until she was sixty, owned and operated her own line of designer cosmetics for three decades, ran for Congress, and generally placed herself on the path of history. Having begun life as a foundling in the crushing poverty of a lumber company town of the Florida panhandle, she described her life as a passage from sawdust to stardust. Yet after her death she has barely been remembered.Poet Enid Shomer brings back this mercurial, dazzling, powerful woman. These poems speak in her voice and in the voices of her mother, teachers, husband, confidants, and political opponents, shaped by Shomer s consummate formal control and stunning lyricism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610753975
• Artikelnr.: 72331396

Autorenporträt

Enid Shomer is the author of three other books of poetry: Stalking the Florida Panther, winner of the Washington Prize; This Close to the Earth; and Black Drum. Her book of stories, Imaginary Men, won the Iowa Fiction Prize and the LSU/Southern Review Prize, both given annually for the best first collection by an American author. Her poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic, Best American Poetry, and many other magazines and anthologies. She has been visiting writer at the University of Arkansas, The Ohio State University, and Florida State University.