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In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougall’s long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poet’s signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language; surprising metaphor; humor; irony; idiomatic speech; and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom concerning death and loss. In McDougall’s world, folks making do with what they have take the stage to speak of, in the words of one critic, “the tangled mysteries of their faltering lives.” Her work has been described as having “excruciating honesty” (Gerald Stern), giving voice to the “ineffable emotions of plain people” (Judith Kitchen). Miller Williams notes that the work has “cleanness and clarity . . . in all the funk and smell of humanity.” This is the poetry of midwestern plains and southern botttomlands, of waitresses and professors, farmers and bankers, the disadvantaged and privileged alike. Often beginning in the personal and expanding to the universal, this poet takes note of the phenomenological world with a mixture of joy, despair, and awe, providing a haunting look at the cosmic irony of our existence. McDougall’s style is indescribable, yet wholly accessible. As Kelly Cherry notes, “Call it magic, call it art; either way [Jo McDougall’s work] is something like a miracle.”

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraph
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  1. Contents
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  1. Foreword
  2. Carl Adamshick
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. from Women Who Marry Houses
  1. On a Sunday Night in Hattiesburg
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  1. The Displaced
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  1. Alice B. Toklas and Moon: A Letter to Gertrude
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  1. The Woman in the Next Booth
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  1. A Lady Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter Says
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  1. One Mile Out of New Smyrna
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  1. At the Vietnam War Memorial for the American Dead
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  1. A Woman Married to Grief
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  1. Remembering a Sunny Climate
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  1. The Day After the Bottomlands Farmer Lost His Wife
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  1. Between the Wars
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  1. A Farm Wife Laments Her Husband’s Absence
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  1. Towns Facing Railroads
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  1. Burying My Mother
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  1. A Veteran of the War Speaks of the Enemy
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  1. The Visiting Assistant Professor on the First Day Addresses Another Class in Yet Another Town
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  1. I’ll Be Seeing You
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  1. At the Marriott
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  1. On Catalpa Street
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  1. Buying a House
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  1. Driving Kansas
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  1. Rooms
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  1. Working Late in My Studio on the Second Story
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  1. Neighborhood
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  1. Dead Child
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  1. Most of the Time
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  1. A Bottomlands Farmer Suffers a Sea Change
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  1. Fields
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  1. Marbles
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  1. His Funeral
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  1. Surviving in Kansas
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  1. Story
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  1. Talking with You Long Distance
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  1. Packing
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  1. The Day
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  1. Children’s Children
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  1. Once in Winter
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  1. The Stump
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  1. In the Home of the Famous Dead
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  1. Her Last Trick
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  1. The First Warm Day
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  1. Remodeling
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  1. Growing Up on the Bayou de Glaises
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  1. A Woman of Substance
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  1. Blessing
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  1. Upon Hearing about the Suicide of the Daughter of Friends
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  1. To Her
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  1. Night Flight, Delta #481
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  1. They Agree to Call It Off but Then
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  1. Dropping a Line
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  1. From Darkening Porches
  1. What Happens When We Leave
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  1. Nights and Days
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  1. She Reflects upon a Sadness
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  1. Circus
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  1. A Bottomlands Farmer Deals with the Arkansas Power and Light Transmission Towers Set in His Field
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  1. Radio
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  1. Eight Years a Ghost
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  1. The Time of Their Lives
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  1. The Crib at Buffalo Antiques
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  1. The Duplex
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  1. A Southerner in Kansas Recalls Trees
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  1. Just Off the Highway
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  1. A Farmer Dies
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  1. Fear
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  1. Air Midwest Lands on Ice at Kansas City International
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  1. Needing Noise
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  1. She Feels Out of Place in Burl’s Auto Service
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  1. The Young Dressmaker, Best in Emerson County
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  1. A Bottomlands Farmer’s Widow Remarries and Speaks of the Killing
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  1. Dreaming the Kin
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  1. After Vietnam/Standing at a Window at Gate 2
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  1. Many Mansions
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  1. After a Neighbor’s House Was Broken Into
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  1. Admission
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  1. Driving a Louisiana Highway, Past a Town with a Ruined Depot, She Remembers the Negro Albino in Her Hometown
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  1. A Picture
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  1. In Ray’s Café
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  1. What Part of Town Was That In?
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  1. My Mother’s Dead Dresses
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  1. Vast
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  1. How It Sometimes Happens to a Man That a Noble Heart and Purpose Come to Dwell within Him
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  1. Singer at the Farmers’ Market
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  1. Depot
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  1. A Story to Tell
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  1. She Ponders the Doctor’s Diagnosis
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  1. Everything You Wanted
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  1. Address
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  1. A Nice Town
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  1. I Describe to My Furniture a House I May Buy
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  1. A Bottomlands Farmer’s Wife Speaks after Attempting Suicide
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  1. The Road
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  1. Driving Alone
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  1. For All They Know
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  1. A Beginning
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  1. At Dark
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  1. Seeing Her
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  1. War Bride 1943
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  1. I Drive into a Town for the First Time
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  1. How Life Sometimes Is like Kansas
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  1. Burying My Father
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  1. A Great Plains Farmer Beseeches the Lord for Rain
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  1. Long Lives
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  1. Dirt
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  1. At a Daughter’s Grave
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  1. Why I Get Up Each Day
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  1. For Stephen, Who Owns a Bag of My Cut Fingernails Carried in the Mouth of an Eel Who Swam the Caddo
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  1. She Returns to Remind Him How It Was When It Was Good between Them
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  1. How to Imagine How It Will Be When the Doctor Comes Out to Say
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  1. Who Could Ask for Anything More
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  1. Intersection
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  1. Gratitude
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