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- ISBN 9781932870275
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2009
- Publisher: Autumn House Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the 2008 Autumn House Poetry Contest, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. Crockett considers the intimacies of daily life and what it means to be interconnected.
MARY CROCKETT HILL has worked as a factory slug, staggeringly bad waitress, incompetent secretary, the person who irons name tags in industrial uniforms, toilet-seat hand model, fundraising spy, freelance writer, history museum director, and college English teacher. Her first book, If You Return Home With Food, was a nominee for the Virginia Book of the Year in Poetry and the winner of the Bluestem Award. Mary Crockett Hill’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines, as well as on Poetry Daily and in American Poetry: The Next Generation. She is a co-author of the history A Town by the Name of Salem and is currently working on a novel for young adults. A Theory of Everything was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2008 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Mary lives along the old Great Road in Virginia with her husband and children.
