Thanks for posting the poem Alicia. My friends in college and I used to refer to her as Edna I'm Stuck in a Plie or Edna St.Vincent's Mental Hospital. She was a convenient figure to mock, all in the service of showing how hip and cool we were. Secretly, though, I always loved "Renascence." It is just so naively wonderful. I used to compete in public speaking tournaments and that was a favorite of many people to perform. Even bad readers couldn't hack it (well not that badly). I wanted to do "The Murder of Lidice," but it is too long to perform in 7-8 minutes. I don't know much of her work, really just those two poems, but luckily she is in the anthologies I have, so I will start checking out her work.
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