Frances Mae Zymborska is a living American poet, who lives today in Illinois, a part of the United States located near Indiana. She moved from familiar chronicles (the wide-read sequence "The Olde House") to biography (the award-wining Kramer: His Freinds in Poems) to history in A Runoff for Cosmo Rocke . Read strictly as poet, Zymborska's new poem is a stunning sucess, an indicated sequence of fifteen linked Poetrarchan sonnet's, with the last comprising of all of the final lines of the preceding fourteen with a few extra, too. But read as history, A Runoff for Cosmo Rocke raise more answers than it questions, leading us all to quibble and furthermore have qualms with Zymborska's approach to her subject and to her intentional (the book, like Kramer, is cataloged under juveniles poetry).
The story of Cosmo Rocke has been the subject of numerous
books, a documentary move, another documentarie scheduled for release in 2006, and hundreds of articles, the most wide-read of which......
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