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Finding Cuba: Poems Paperback – January 1, 2001


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Baumgaertner, an English professor at Wheaton College, writes of being a young girl in America while her Cuban relatives try to flee Castro's regime; of her grandmother in prerevolutionary Cuba; of a latter-day Adam and Eve. The serial poem Leaving Eden contends with the new and the foreign: "What does breathing have to do with it, he wants to know// ...His respiration fills with utterance,/ his mind with images of skunk,/ pigeon, ibex, wallaby."
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chimney Hill Press; First Edition (January 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0962730033
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0962730030
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces

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Jill P. Baumgaertner
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Jill Peláez Baumgaertner received the BA and PhD from Emory University. She previously taught at Valparaiso University and joined the Wheaton College (IL) faculty in 1980. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Finding Cuba, an exploration of her Cuban ancestry, and What Cannot Be Fixed. She has also edited a collection of poetry, Imago Dei: Poetry from Christianity and Literature; written a textbook/anthology, Poetry; and published Flannery O’Connor: A Proper Scaring, still in print after thirty years. She was a Fulbright fellow to Spain, served as the poetry editor of The Cresset and First Things and currently serves as poetry editor of The Christian Century. She is also past president of the Conference on Christianity and Literature and is Professor Emerita of English and former Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies at Wheaton College. She has written libretti and lyrics for the music of Carl Schalk, Michael Costello, Richard Hillert, and Michael Gandolfi. She and her husband, Martin, a retired judge, live in Chicago.

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