I'm very interested in the lives of forgotten women. My poem,
"Jephthah and His Daughter," represents this. (Jephthah's daughter
wouldn't be uncommon as a last name, but isn't she lost when we don't
know her first? Why is Abraham's son spared? Surely Jephthah keeps his
faith. Who's sacrificing what? Is Jephthah's daughter the more
significant but forgotten precursor to Jesus?) Interest in the
forgotten led me to writing a biography in poetry about Nannerl Mozart.
The Other Mozart is thoroughly
reviewed along with earlier work in Parnassus,
Vol. 26, No. 1. I'm also interviewed about the book in the June 2001
issue of A View from the Loft.
"Like a Train Going By," another poem in the Notre Dame Review, is another take
on relationships with fathers. This poem is rather conciliatory, I
think. The title came while surfacing from a morning dream.