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Digby has been re-issued by Figueroa Press in 2003. Her forth novel Channeling Mark Twain from Random House is in stores now.
Carol's collection of essays entitled Married to the Icepick Killer, A Poet
in Hollywood was published in August of 2002. Her collection of reviews and critical essays, Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography
and the Shape of the Self was published in the "Poets
on Poetry" series of the University of Michigan Press,
1997.
Both collections have been "New York Times Most Notable Books" or listed in the current year's "Best Books".
She
is a regular critic for the New York
Times Book Review and the LA Times
Book Review. Her work appears everywhere from the New Yorker to L.A.
Magazine and she is anthologized widely, including in Best American
Poems, 100 Great Poems by Women and many others.
She is professor
of English and Creative Writing and founding Director of the new PhD
Program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University
of Southern California.
She has received many awards and honors,
including a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for
the Arts fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill, the Witter Bynner award
from the Library of Congress, the Castagnola award from the
Poetry Society of America and several Pushcart Prizes.
On November 13, 2008, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Carol as California's poet laureate.
Annie
Muske-Dukes, after graduating from USC in May of 2005, will
re-locate to Boulder, Colorado, where she will be pursuing a
PhD in molecular biology at the Institute for Cellular, Developmental,
Molecular Biology at the Univ. of Colorado.
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Married
to the Icepick Killer: a Poet in Hollywood (a collection
of essays reprinted from the NY Times and LA Times book reviews
and Op Ed pages as well as unpublished work) was published in
2002 by Random House and selected as a Best Book of the year
by the SF Chronicle.
Sparrow,
a collection of elegies for David, was published in 2003 by
Random House and chosen as a National Book Award finalist in
Poetry. The book also won the Yale Review's Smart Award, plus
the Chapin award from Columbia University. Sparrow paperback came out from Random House in 2004.
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