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

the Crab Orchard Series
in Poetry
2006 Editor’s Selection
Lizzie Borden
In Love:
Poems in
Women’s Voices
by Julianna Baggott
“Julianna Baggott amazes with
the scope of her imagination. Part
biographer, part ventriloquist, part
genius, she inhabits characters we
thought we knew—from Katharine
Hepburn to Helen Keller. In
reopening their lives, she is reopening
history, retelling it intimately and
urgently and wisely in the voices of
the women themselves. Baggott’s
talent is almost spooky. Lizzie Borden
in Love is a dangerous and elegant
collection from one of America’s
finest young poets.
—Beth Ann Fennelly,
author of Great with Child
and Tender Hooks
Copublished with
Crab Orchard Review
Lizzie Borden in Love:
Poems in Women’s Voices
80 pages
ISBN 0-8093-2725-2, $14.95 paper
Series Editor, Jon Tribble
Praise for Julianna Baggott
“…Julianna Baggott draws themes as sharp
as razors. She is an accomplished poet of
the eye and ear, of the definitive feminine
experience, and her poems of private life
are expansive enough to suggest a vision
of a political and historical era. If Baggott’s
large subject is memory and, especially,
its defaults, the clarity that so many of
her characters seek to deny is her great
virtue.…a poet of substantial powers.”
—Rodney Jones
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