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Title: The Queen of Lost Baggage
Publisher: Washington Writers Pub House
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0931846293
ISBN 13: 9780931846298
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Barbara F. Lefcowitz's third poetry collection, winner of the Washington Writers' Publishing House award, was described by one reviewer as"wise, witty, dramatic, daring" (The Washington Review); the reviewer from Choice noted that "Lefcowitz moves deftly between dream and reality and imagination." Poems touch upon memory, forgetting, travels to the Balkans, fairy tales, the NY Yankees, and a poetic journal of her stay at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Two popular poems are "Menopausal Baseball," a witty yet poignant depiction of menopause as a metaphor, and "My Poetry Retirement Dinner," which ironically concludes that such an event is a sheer impossibility.

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Barbara F. Lefcowitz has published six books of poetry, a novel, and numerous individual poems, short stories, essays, and reviews in over 350 journals. She has won writing fellowships and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Maryland Arts Council, among others. A resident of Bethesda, Maryland, she is also a visual artist, a Professor of English at Anne Arundel College, and a world-traveller.

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