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by Enid Shomer

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These poems give voice to the life of the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. While Jacqueline Cochran was alive, no man or woman in the world could match her records for speed, distance, and altitude flying. Founder and director of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, Cochran continued to fly competitively until she was sixty, owned and operated her own line of designer cosmetics for three decades, ran for Congress, and generally placed herself on the path of history. Having begun life as a foundling in the crushing poverty of a lumber company town of the Florida panhandle, she described her life as "a passage from sawdust to stardust." Yet after her death she has barely been remembered.

Poet Enid Shomer brings back this mercurial, dazzling, powerful woman. These poems speak in her voice and in the voices of her mother, teachers, husband, confidants, and political opponents, shaped by Shomer's consummate formal control and stunning lyricism.

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While Jacqueline Cochran was alive, no man or woman in the world could match her records for speed, distance, and altitude flying. Founder and director of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, Cochran continued to fly competitively until she was sixty, owned and operated her own line of designer cosmetics for three decades, ran for Congress, and generally placed herself on the path of history. Having begun life as a foundling in the crushing poverty of a lumber company town of the Florida panhandle, she described her life as "a passage from sawdust to stardust." Yet after her death she has barely been remembered. Poet Enid Shomer brings back this mercurial, dazzling, powerful woman. These poems speak in her voice and in the voices of her mother, teachers, husband, confidants, and political opponents, shaped by Shomer's consummate formal control and stunning lyricism. Illustrated with photographs.

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  • Title Stars at Noon: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
  • Author Enid Shomer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 110
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2001-07-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781557287120 / 1557287120
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.82 x 0.33 in (21.59 x 14.78 x 0.84 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Businesswomen, Women air pilots
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001002000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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  • Booklist, 10/15/2001, Page 375
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2002, Page 78

About the author

Enid Shomer is the author of three other books of poetry: Stalking the Florida Panther, winner of the Washington Prize; This Close to the Earth; and Black Drum. Her book of stories, Imaginary Men, won the Iowa Fiction Prize and the LSU/Southern Review Prize, both given annually for the best first collection by an American author. Her poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic, Best American Poetry, and many other magazines and anthologies. She has been visiting writer at the University of Arkansas, The Ohio State University, and Florida State University.
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