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November 20, 2007
Mary DeJong Obuchowski, MA'62, PhD'68
Field O' My Dreams: The Collected Poems of Gene Stratton-Porter, Kent State University Press, 2007.
The book: Gene Stratton-Porter was an Indiana writer and naturalist best known for her young adult fiction and other early 20th century novels and nonfiction writings about her Midwestern and California environments. She is less well-known for her poetry, however, despite having published two books of poetry as well as hundreds of her more whimsical, rhyming poems in such popular magazines as McCall's and Good Housekeeping. This book presents her collected poems.
The author: Mary DeJong Obuchowski is professor emerita of English at Central Michigan University. She has published articles in MidAmerica, Nature Study, Children's Literature Review, Great Lakes Review, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, and An Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes.
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:44 AM