July 2015
Barbara Goldberg
barbaragoldberg8@gmail.com
barbaragoldberg8@gmail.com
I am the author of four prize-winning books of poetry, including The Royal Baker’s Daughter, winner of the Felix Pollak Poetry Award. My most recent book is Scorched by the Sun, translations of poems by the Israeli poet Moshe Dor. The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships as well as awards in translation, fiction and speechwriting, I am Series Editor of the Word Works’ International Editions. Please visit my website, www.barbaragoldberg.net.
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Cautionary Tales In the woods are these things: fingers of madmen nimble and quick playing cat's cradle with ropes meant for strangling a great horned owl in the treetop the soul of a Chippewa caught in its throat a sidewinding snake rubbing its scales jaws unhinged hungry for neckbones quicksand, though no one knows where exactly These are stories our children tell us to keep us from wandering. “Cautionary Tales” first appeared in Poetry magazine and later in the book Cautionary Tales (winner of the Camden Award, Dryad Books, 1990). |
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