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The Making of a Literary Map
English Journal
  • Joyce Kinkead, Utah State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1994
Abstract

David Lee, fondly known in Utah as the "pig poet" for his collection The Porcine Canticles (1984), tells the story of his seventh-grade teacher's poetry assignment from a Texas childhood:

She sent us to the li-berry to find a pome. We were supposed to change some words to make it our pome. I came back with "Hell hath no fury like a sow with pigs." She gave me an F. (Magid 1993, 1)

Today, when David Lee reads one of his pig poems to audiences around the state, they chuckle and applaud.

Citation Information
Kinkead, J. A. "The Making of a Literary Map." English Journal 83.8 (1994): 65-71.