Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women's Voices

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I’m thankful to the following publications, where poems in this collection first appeared: Beloit Poetry Journal—“Helen Keller Dying in Her Sleep” and “Marie Laurent Pasteur Watches Louis Walk to the Kennels after His Stroke” Crab Orchard Review—“Monica Lewinsky Thinks of Bill Clinton While Standing Naked in Front of a Hotel Mirror” Image—“Dorothy Day’s Daughter, Pregnant with Her Ninth Child, Begs Her Mother for Charity: A Bedtime Prayer” and “Ethel Water’s Mother, Louise--Raped at Twelve--Cannot Listen to Her Daughter Sing `His Eye Is on the Sparrow’” Meridian—“Katharine Hepburn in the Attic with Her Dead Brother” Quarterly West—“Mary Todd on Her Deathbed” The Southern Review—“Irene, Suicide, Four Years after Divorcing Norman Rockwell and Marrying Francis Hartley, Jr.,” “Mary Rockwell after Her Son Is Accidentally Stabbed While Fencing” and “To Mary Rockwell, now dead” 32 Poems—“Mary Rockwell, 1950” and “Marie Curie Gives Advice to Her Daughter Irene before Her Wedding” Third Coast—“Ida Saxton McKinley, the First Lady, Seizes during a Dinner Party” and “Mary Cassatt, Going Blind, Crosses Her Room” TriQuarterly—“Mrs. Dali” Virginia Quarterly Review—“Camille Claudel Bathing in the Lake near Chateau D’Islette,” “Camille Claudel Does Not Want to See the Baby,” “Camille Claudel Refuses to Sculpt Clay Given to Her by Sister Saint Hildefonse at the Asylum,” and “Lori Schappell, a Conjoined Twin, Addresses the Kmart Cashier Who Eyes Her with Too Much Sympathy” xi “Mary Todd on Her Deathbed” was reprinted in Best American Poetry 2000. “Mary Rockwell, 1950” was reprinted in Red, White, and Blues, an anthology of poetry from the University of Iowa Press. xii L I Z Z I E B O R D E N I N L O V E ...