- Patricia Goedicke
Patricia Goedicke (
June 21 ,1931 —July 14 ,2006 ) was an Americanpoet .Born Patricia McKenna in
Boston, Massachusetts , she grew up inHanover, New Hampshire , where her father was a residentpsychiatrist atDartmouth College . During her high school years she was an accomplished downhill skier. She earned herB.A. atMiddlebury College in 1953, where she studied withRobert Frost . She also studied underW. H. Auden atYoung Men's Hebrew Association ofNew York City in 1955.She married in 1956 Victor Goedicke, a professor at
Ohio University , where in 1965 she completed her M.A. in creative writing and poetry. She divorced in 1968, the same year that while an artist in residence at theMacDowell Colony inPeterborough, New Hampshire , she met Leonard Wallace Robinson. He was a writer for "The New Yorker " and a fiction editor and book editor at "Esquire Magazine ". They married in 1971. The couple later moved toSan Miguel de Allende in theMexican state ofGuanajuato , where she taught creative writing at theUniversidad de Guanajuato . Goedicke and Robinson returned to the United States in 1981, and she became professor to theUniversity of Montana , where she taught until her retirement in 2003.Her awards and honors include the
Rockefeller Foundation Residency at its Villa Serbelloni; aNational Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; aPushcart Prize ; theWilliam Carlos Williams Prize; the 1987 Caroline Kizer Prize; the Hohenberg Award, and the 1992 Edward Stanley Award from "Prairie Schooner". Her last book was recognized as one of the top 10 poetry books of 2000 by theAmerican Library Association . "The Tongues We Speak" was aNew York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1990.Goedicke died of
pneumonia and a complication oflung cancer , at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center inMissoula, Montana .Works
* "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)ources
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