Red Silk
Book Description
Maryfrances Wagner's poems, arranged as both a personal memoir and a cultural history of America's past four decades, accumulate into an inclusive, sympathetic document of post-nuclear American life--from the ravages of the Viet Nam War, to the poet's battle with ill health, to her loving acceptance of middle age in middle America.
About the Author
A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Maryfrances Wagner has, throughout her academic career, been a teacher and English department chair at Raytown High School, Raytown, Missouri. Her poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Hiram Poetry Review, Nebraska Review, New Letters, Midwest Quarterly, Laurel Review, Beacon Review, Kansas City Outloud II (BkMk Press), and Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (Penguin Books). Her work published in The Dream Book, An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation), was chosen for an audio cassette for American Audio Prose and was translated into Italian for Trapani Nuovo in Italy. Her collection of poems, Salvatore's Daughter (BkMk Press, 1995) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 1999, she and her husband, Greg Field, received the Writers Place Award for contributions to the arts in teaching, editing, and writing.
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