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Queen of the Platform by Laura Madeline Wiseman

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Queen of the Platform ($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-54-1, LCCN: 2013956258, 84pp, 6X9″): These poems are based on the life of Laura Madeline Wiseman’s grea Queen of the Platform ($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-54-1, LCCN: 2013956258, 84pp, 6X9″): These poems are based on the life of Laura Madeline Wiseman’s great-great-great-grandmother, the nineteenth century lecturer, suffragist, and poet, Matilda Fletcher Wiseman (1842-1909) and the men in her life: her brother, George W. Felts (1843-1921), a civil war solider who was later charged with murder, her first husband, John A. Fletcher (1837-1875), a school teacher and a lawyer, and her second husband, William Albert Wiseman (1850-1911), a minister who became her agent. Like her seven brothers who served in the Civil War, Matilda chose the public sphere. After the death of her only child, Matilda joined the lecture circuit. She spoke to support herself and her first husband, until his death. On the stage she spoke among other lecturers of her time, such as Susan B. Anthony.

Laura Madeline Wiseman: A Lecturer at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, with a PhD in English, and numerous publications in poetry (Unclose the Door, Sprung, and Farm Hands), women’s studies (Women Write Resistance: Poets Resis Gender Violence), and other areas. She has also won several awards including the Academy of American Poets Award, the Susan Atefat Peckham Fellowship, and many others.

In a time when the struggles and hard-won achievements of our foremothers are in danger of being rolled back or forgotten, Laura Madeline Wiseman turns our attention to a literary and familial ancestor who, after her only child’s death, waved “Goodbye/to motherhood, to one kind of life” and “bowed in welcome to another.” Wiseman blends archival research and imagination, vividly capturing intimate exchanges that resonate historically… Queen of the Platform is a timely and terrific read. —Jane Satterfield, author of Her Familiars

A collection of experimental forms—a telegraph poem, a poem with an algebraic equation as its refrain, and erasures of historical documents—intermingling with traditional forms (such as a fairy tale ghazal), these poems spin history with an imagination attune to the intrigue behind fact. Queen of the Platform will pull you into the political landscape of the turn of the twentieth century as though history tapped you on the shoulder with its glove. —Tyler Mills, author of Tongue Lyre

Laura Madeline Wiseman’s Queen of the Platform is not only full of the energy of immediacy, but also deep meditation on the material traces of her ancestry. Sometimes exacting, sometimes provocative, but always bold—Wiseman’s poetry sharply observes the fabric of her characters’ lives. —Margo Taft Stever, author of Frozen Spring ...more
Queen of the Platform ($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-54-1, LCCN: 2013956258, 84pp, 6X9″): These poems are based on the life of Laura Madeline Wiseman’s grea Queen of the Platform ($15, ISBN: 978-1-937536-54-1, LCCN: 2013956258, 84pp, 6X9″): These poems are based on the life of Laura Madeline Wiseman’s great-great-great-grandmother, the nineteenth century lecturer, suffragist, and poet, Matilda Fletcher Wiseman (1842-1909) and the men in her life: her brother, George W. Felts (1843-1921), a civil war solider who was later charged with murder, her first husband, John A. Fletcher (1837-1875), a school teacher and a lawyer, and her second husband, William Albert Wiseman (1850-1911), a minister who became her agent. Like her seven brothers who served in the Civil War, Matilda chose the public sphere. After the death of her only child, Matilda joined the lecture circuit. She spoke to support herself and her first husband, until his death. On the stage she spoke among other lecturers of her time, such as Susan B. Anthony.

Laura Madeline Wiseman: A Lecturer at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, with a PhD in English, and numerous publications in poetry (Unclose the Door, Sprung, and Farm Hands), women’s studies (Women Write Resistance: Poets Resis Gender Violence), and other areas. She has also won several awards including the Academy of American Poets Award, the Susan Atefat Peckham Fellowship, and many others.

In a time when the struggles and hard-won achievements of our foremothers are in danger of being rolled back or forgotten, Laura Madeline Wiseman turns our attention to a literary and familial ancestor who, after her only child’s death, waved “Goodbye/to motherhood, to one kind of life” and “bowed in welcome to another.” Wiseman blends archival research and imagination, vividly capturing intimate exchanges that resonate historically… Queen of the Platform is a timely and terrific read. —Jane Satterfield, author of Her Familiars

A collection of experimental forms—a telegraph poem, a poem with an algebraic equation as its refrain, and erasures of historical documents—intermingling with traditional forms (such as a fairy tale ghazal), these poems spin history with an imagination attune to the intrigue behind fact. Queen of the Platform will pull you into the political landscape of the turn of the twentieth century as though history tapped you on the shoulder with its glove. —Tyler Mills, author of Tongue Lyre

Laura Madeline Wiseman’s Queen of the Platform is not only full of the energy of immediacy, but also deep meditation on the material traces of her ancestry. Sometimes exacting, sometimes provocative, but always bold—Wiseman’s poetry sharply observes the fabric of her characters’ lives. —Margo Taft Stever, author of Frozen Spring ...more

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Availability: 2 copies available, 529 people requesting

Giveaway dates: May 05 - Aug 01, 2014

Countries available: United States and United States

About Laura Madeline Wiseman

Laura Madeline Wiseman's latest books are Velocipede, published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press and Through A Certain Forest published by BlazeVOX [books]. Her collaboratively written chapbook with Andrea Blythe, Every Girl Becomes the Wolf is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

She is also the author of the full length collections of poetry An Apparently Impossible Adventure (Blaze ...more

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