Catherine Anderson (6) (1954–)
Author of In the Mother Tongue
For other authors named Catherine Anderson, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Catherine Anderson was born in 1954 in Detroit, Michigan. She is the author of In the Mother Tongue, published in 1983, a book of poems published by Alice James Books of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anderson was the Cornelia Ward Fellow for Poetry at Syracuse University in 1976, where she received an show more M.A. in English and creative writing in 1979. She works as a community journalist and organizer in Boston's immigrant communities and has published in many journals, including The American Voice, The Antioch Review, and The Harvard Review. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Photo: Miriam Goodman
Works by Catherine Anderson
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1954
- Gender
- female
- Organizations
- Director of Development, Kansas City Zoo
- Short biography
- Catherine Anderson is the author of The Work of Hands (Perugia Press, 2000) and In the Mother Tongue (1983).
She has published in the Harvard Review, the Journal, the Women's Review of Books, the anthologies Working Classics: Poems of Industrial Life and Poetry 180, and other journals.
She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and is the Director of Development at the Kansas City Zoo. - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Places of residence
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Her poem "What is Violence?" stopped me in my tracks. That poem plus "Womanhood," "The Girls' School," and maybe "Silver Horseshoe and Satellite" make four terrific poems, enough to give the book a four star rating on my personal idiosyncratic system. From the author photo she looks very middle class, very Cambridge Massachusetts, but she writes with compassion - and passion - about girls from the other side of the divide.
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- Members
- 10
- Popularity
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- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 485
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