Crab Orchard Review Vol. 12, No. 2, our

the Crab Orchard Series
in Poetry
2000 Open Competition Award
THIS COUNTRY
OF MOTHERS
Poems by Julianna Baggott
“Julianna Baggott has a fierce imagination
which probes the ordinary details of a
woman’s life and lights up both the sacred
and profane. In a poem called ‘Blurbs,’
she half-facetiously hopes for the words
‘sexy,’ ‘elegance,’ and ‘bite’ to be applied
to her work. Happily, in this book, she
earns all three.”—Linda Pastan, author of
Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems
1968–1998
Series Editor, Jon Tribble
“Baggott’s world is haunted by blood, miscarriage,
suicide, and family love—and set against the world
of the Bible.…In these large, passionate, compelling
poems, the speaker’s family and the holy family
merge in love and suffering—wholly family, wholly
loved, wholly suffered for.”—Andrew Hudgins,
author of Babylon in a Jar: Poems and The Glass
Hammer: A Southern Childhood
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80 pages
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