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This poem is from the chapbook Recipe for a Funeral by Mary Eichbauer (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/recipe-for-a-funeral-by-mary-eichbauer/
Born in New York City, poet and prose writer Mary Eichbauer makes her home in Benicia, California. She was in the first class of women admitted to Caltech. Her first book of poetry, After the Opera (Random Lane Press, 2020), was partly inspired by her extended stays in France and her love of French language and culture. With three other woman poets, she collaborated on the poetry anthology Love’s Meditation (Random Lane Press, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in Tule Review, The Gathering, the Benicia Herald, and many Benicia First Tuesday Poetry Group anthologies, while her prose writing has appeared in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Paragraph. A book of literary criticism, Poetry’s Self-Portrait: The Visual Arts as Mirror and Muse in René Char and John Ashbery, was published by Peter Lang in 1992.
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