The Book of Poetry

There Are Weeds in All Great Gardens (2004)

When Dicksy and I lived in Vermont, I pretty much worked full-time on my writing – except for a little tutoring I did, and papers and such for the MFA program that I was in at Goddard College (and that helped my writing too).

I was working on my novel. That was my focus. I wrote every day for hours. But I was also writing a lot of poems. Since I did write every day for hours, and research, and read, and create outlines, and lists – a full-time job – since I was dedicated to the action of writing, I wrote pages and pages of material that was NOT my novel, as well.

Sometimes I just couldn’t be in the 1880s in Western North Carolina. Sometimes I didn’t want to be with Abe or Maudie or Sissy or Jumps or any of them. But I was at work. I was writing. So, I began writing poetry, and I wrote a lot of it. I also wrote a short story and a one act play. There are Weeds in All Great Gardens is a collection of those writings.

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