Cadaver, Speak - Paperback

by Marianne Boruch (Author)

Send a poet like Marianne Boruch to work in a cadaver lab and extraordinary poems come to life.

Author Biography

Marianne Boruch was born in Chicago in 1950. She is the author of seven collections of poetry including The Book of Hours (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), two volumes of essays on poetry, and a memoir. After receiving her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she founded the MFA program at Purdue University in 1987. In addition to teaching at Purdue University, she also teaches at the low-residency MFA program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her recent awards include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (2013), and a Fulbright/Visiting professorship at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Marianne lives with in husband in West Lafayette, Indiana.