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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Carol Muske-Dukes, professor of English in USC College, as California’s next poet laureate. Muske-Dukes, author of seven books of poetry, four novels and two collections of essays, founded the College’s elite Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing program, launched in 2001.
A Poem by Carol Muske-Dukes. The New Yorker, December 23 & 39, 2002. Married to the Icepick Killer. A Poet in Hollywood. Prizewinning poet and novelist Carol Muske-Dukes offers smart, entertaining stories and reflections about the unpredictable marriage of L.A. and literature. (See Reviews of Married to the Icepick Killer).
Carol Muske-Dukes is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her 1997 collection of poetry, An Octave Above Thunder, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A poet, critical essayist, and fiction author, she lives in Los… More about Carol Muske-Dukes
The Los Angeles Times has said about acclaimed poet, novelist and critic Carol Muske-Dukes: "Ah, that wonderful, rare thing: a poet who has the ability to deepen the secrets of experience even while revealing them." SPARROW (Random House; May 13, 2003), a luminous new volume of poetry from Muske-Dukes, continues to deepen these secrets. Muske-Dukes's warm and compassionate voice mesmerizes as ...
October 2002 | Diane Ackerman, Dick Allen, John Ashbery, Marvin Bell, Wendell Berry, Michael Blumenthal, Robert Bly, Philip Booth, David Bottoms, Neal…
Carol Muske-Dukes is an acclaimed novelist and poet whose latest collection, Sparrow , a haunting elegy for her late husband, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Twin Cities is an emotionally rich book of poems about how things double - by reflection, by reproduction, by severance. The poems embark from the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, divided by a legendary river, and then ...
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 ...
