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10. März 2019 · Epith. By Carol Muske-Dukes. Here’s the little dressmaker on her knees at your feet, mouth full of pins: fixing you in the dummy’s image. Your belled satin shivers like a goblet of fizzled brut– You wanted it late in life, happiness, wanted little family but after the kids grew up. Like a saint on her…
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Carol Muske-Dukes was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on December 17, 1945. Her poetry collections include Blue Rose (Penguin, 2018), a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Sparrow (Random House, 2003), a National Book Award finalist.
Carol Muske-Dukes' third novel, "Life After Death," is set in these watery passageways between two states of being, her dead characters not really dead, her living characters backward-looking, trapped by loss and grief. There is even a literal underworld for these liminal figures to visit, Carver's Cave (called "House of the Spirits" by the ...
After reading Carol Muske-Dukes' Chaneling Mark Twain you might decide her protagonist, Holly Mattox, is the woman you'd want on your Conestoga wagon. You can speculate that Carol herself has obviously been There (yes, capital T) and having been There she has written the bravest of novels. The book challenges on various levels - intellectual, emotional, physical - and when you put it down you ...
The scholarship, established in memory of the late actor David Coleman Dukes, is awarded annually to a third-year Theater Arts student working toward a career in stage acting. A bronze plaque commemorating the scholarship benefit held in David Coleman Dukes' name can be seen in the lobby of the Bing Theater, off Queen's Court on the USC campus.
17. Juli 2023 · Carol Muske-Dukes, a former California poet laureate, founded the Creative Writing and Literature Ph.D. program at the University of Southern California.Her latest poetry collection is “Blue ...
