![]() ![]() ![]() Then I realized it had a baby in it, and the baby was angry. But this story came to me all on its own. ![]() I took a long break from the short story, except when asked to contribute to something. But then came essays, then poems, then novels-screenplays were mixed in there too. I started out as a short story writer, stubbornly resistant to all other genres. I wanted to try her voice out in an extended form, a story. The poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter Mary Cassatt. I also wanted to write from the voice I’d found in poems-this woman with two stiff buns worn ho rnish on her head, who spoke using words that have been dropped from English a strange, wild, bedridden woman writing letters (and warnings) to her lover. Lizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestselling author Julianna Baggott, offers poignant commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. But she came back to me this past year as I was thinking about tropes in horror-in particular, Frankenstein’s monster. Another contributor to A Very Angry Baby: The Anthology provides insight on her story’s conception: I was obsessed with Marie Curie years ago while writing a series of poems about her and her daughter, some of which were part of my collection called Lizzie Borden in Love. ![]()
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