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Satisfied with Havoc by Jo McDougall
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ISBN (paperback): 0-9669419-9-3 About the Book Without fanfare — and fanfare would be in order — Jo McDougall has created a small but solid corpus of poetry that is both unique and uniquely American….Gathered together in ‘the hasty tent’ of our life, we are, for a moment, something other than ourselves, not earth but air. Call it magic, call it art: either way, McDougall’s poetry is something like a miracle.
–The Hollins Critic About the Author Jo McDougall, who grew up on a rice farm in the Arkansas Delta, is the author of five books of poetry. Formerly co-director of the creative writing program at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, she has received a John Ciardi Fellowship (University of Missouri/Kansas City), fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Arkansas Arts Council, awards from the DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and Arkansas’ Porter Prize. Her poems have been widely anthologized, including in Ted Kooser’s nationally syndicated column American Life in Poetry and in Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times and Writer’s Almanac. She lives in Kansas City. |
