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Martine started out her arts career in theater and was a founding member of The Blood Company and performed with the Iowa Theater Lab. A poet of unusual talent, she is the author of The Vulnerability of Order, Copper Canyon Press (June 2001) -- of which Calamity Jane is a part. Her other books of poetry
include Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems, Sun & Moon Press (1999) which won the National Poetry Series Award, and Places People Dare Not Enter, Potes & Poets Press (1991).
Martine's work has appeared in numerous journals, including Grand Street, Sulfur, Colorado Review, and New American Writing. Since 1988 she has been an editor of the literary journal Conjunctions. Ms. Bellen recieved an M.F.A. from Brown University and has taught at many colleges and universities, including New York University, Hunter College and Hofstra University. She has been a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry and the American Academy of Poets Award.
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Bill can't see her beauty till she drops her coat, can't see her face or coif. Or hear her sing, "My gun got so hot had to sit with a muzzle between my legs." Her magic: pink chiffon. made into a woman "no changeless essence ... no eternal verities" Custer, Custer, elle était plus qu'une prostituée a true star of gold ornée d'une étoile la défroque of all théâtre tout le monde Jane Russell and Jean Arthur, John Wayne and Bogie too. |
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