Patricia Goedicke

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Patricia Goedicke (June 21, 1931 – July 14, 2006) was an American poet.

Biography

Born Patricia McKenna in

Young Men's Hebrew Association of New York City
in 1955.

She married in 1956 Victor Goedicke, a professor at

Mexican state of Guanajuato, where she taught creative writing at the Universidad de Guanajuato. Goedicke and Robinson returned to the United States in 1981, and she became professor at the University of Montana
, where she taught until her retirement in 2003.

Goedicke died of pneumonia and a complication of lung cancer, at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, Montana.

Awards and honors

Her awards and honors include the

New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1990. She was awarded The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize by the Beloit Poetry Journal
in 2002.

Published works

Books

  • As the Earth Begins to End: New Poems, poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2000)
  • Invisible Horses, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1996)
  • Paul Bunyon's Bearskin, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1992)
  • The Tongues We Speak: New and Selected Poems, poetry (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1989)
  • Listen, Love, poetry (Daleville: Barnwood, 1986)
  • The Wind of Our Going, poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1985)
  • Crossing the Same River, poetry (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980)
  • The Dog That Was Barking Yesterday, poetry (Amherst: Lynx, 1980)
  • The Trail That Turns on Itself, poetry (Ithaca: Ithaca House Press, 1978)
  • For the Four Corners, poetry (Ithaca: Ithaca House Press, 1976)
  • Between Oceans, poetry (San Diego: Harcourt, 1968)

Individual works

  • What Rushes By Us[1]

References

Sources

  • Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000037403

External links