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Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College.
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Top Ten Book of the Year.-Booklist In her twelfth collection, Patricia Goedicke explores-without sentimentality-the complexities of aging and human relationships. "Goedicke's poems have a hard, truthful ring, like parables of survival."-Harper's "Spare, tender, complex, this moving collection of poems tells the story of two people in love throughout their adult lives, and the changes and challenges the passage of time visits upon them."-Chicago Tribune "In the past, Goedicke has written tender verses on tough subjects, including her mother's cancer and her own. Now out of the death of her husband she has produced what must have been by far her most difficult book to write, and it is her best. These poems will move any reader who cares to read them."-Houston Chronicle "The sober yet visionary world she discovers amids loss is one of the hardest for any poet to encounter. Goedicke pulls it off with simple and startling language that does not seek sympathy, but infinite understanding."-Bloomsbury Review Patricia Goedicke has published twelve volumes of poetry which have earned an impressive range of recognition, including a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a William Carlos Williams Award. She lives in Missoula and teaches at the University of Montana.
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Born Patricia McKenna in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father was a resident psychiatrist at Dartmouth College.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Middlebury College in 1953, where she studied with Robert Frost. She also studied under West. H. Auden at Young Men"s Hebrew Association of New York City in 1955. She married in 1956 Victor Goedicke, a professor at Ohio University, where in 1965 she completed her Master of Arts
In creative writing and poetry. She divorced in 1968, the same year that while an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, she met Leonard Wallace Robinson. He was a writer for The New Yorker and a fiction editor and book editor at Esquire Magazine.
The couple later moved to San Miguel de Allende in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, where she taught creative writing at the Universidad de Guanajuato.
Goedicke and Robinson returned to the United States in 1981, and she became professor at the University of Montana, where she taught until her retirement in 2003. Her last book was recognized as one of the top 10 poetry books of 2000 by the American Library Association.
The Tongues We Speak was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1990. Goedicke died of pneumonia and a complication of lung cancer, at Saint Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, Montana.
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Fellow: MacDowell Colony. Member: Poets Editors Novelists West, Poets Editors Novelists United States of America, Associate Writing Programs, Poetry Society of America (Ohioana Poetry award 2002, H.G. Merriam award 2003), Academy American Poets (associate).
Married Leonard Wallace Robinson, June 3, 1971.