Description
Patricia Goedicke was the author of 13 books of poetry, one of which, As Earth Begins to End, was recognized by the American Library Association as one of the top ten poetry books of the year 2000. During her career, she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and won the William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry from New Letters magazine. She taught in the creative writing program at the University of Montana for 25 years. Before her death in 2006 she finshed The Baseball Field at Night, her last collection of poems.
Recognition
“Patricia Goedicke was a modest, gracious soul and a fine poet. In her last poems, as in all her previous work, she finds deep spiritual connections with ordinary peoples and places and things of this world. She is a poet without pretension or outward ambition, able to engage rhythms and harmonies that illuminated and bound together the practices of a lifetime of generosity of spirit. Her poetry remains a sustaining gift to us all.”–Sam Hamill
“I feel haunted by the powerful, prescient poems in The Baseball Field at Night, by the intimate tone, the vivid nearness of Patricia Goedicke’s images, the alert, hair-raising technique. Her lexicon is deliciously rich. Her voice has life. She was in the world in her time, and these poems are the moving case.”–Forrest Gander
