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She has authored four poetry collections: Many-Storied House (The University Press of Kentucky, 2013), She Let Herself Go (The University Press of Kentucky, 2012), Back (Wind Publications, 2010), … "Collectively, the poems tell the sixty-eight-year-long story of the house, beginning with its construction by Lyon's grandfather and culminating with the poet's memories of bidding farewell to it after her mother's death.
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Born in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain, a chapbook of poems.
Many-Storied House is her fifth collection.While teaching aspiring writers, Lyon asked her students to write a poem based on memories rooted in a house where they had lived. I am from the dirt under the back porch. A poignant memoir in poems, Many-Storied House is a personal and revealing addition to George Ella Lyon's body of work. <>
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In this intimate book, she strives to answer lingering questions about herself and her family: "Here I stand, at the beginning," she writes in the opening lines of the volume, "with more questions than / answers. I am from the forsythia bush, the Dutch elm whose long gone limbs I remember as if they were my own. %����
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MODEL POEM FOR THIS LESSON Where I’m From By George Ella Lyon I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart of her work. 4 0 obj
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