Carol Muske-Dukes is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her 1997 collection of poetry, An Octave Above Thunder, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A poet, critical essayist, and fiction author, she lives in Los Angeles.

Other poems by Carol Muske-Dukes in Verse Daily:
May 3, 2010:   "San Clemente" "Shame & shame: sound of neap tide..."

Books by Carol Muske-Dukes:

Other poems on the web by Carol Muske-Dukes:
Twelve poems
Eigth poems
Nine poems
"Scout"
"Camilla"
"Hate Mail"
"To a Soldier"

Carol Muske-Dukes's Website.

Carol Muske-Dukes According to Wikipedia.

Carol Muske-Dukes on Twitter.

About Blue Rose:

"Scathing intelligence and an open heart: the most difficult combination in the world, and bountifully manifest on every page. In the birth room, at the death bed, beneath the falling ash of a California wildfire, before the whole, hurt spectacle of an imperiled and beloved world, these poems remind us what it's truly like to see and feel. And oh, the achieved musicianship: every image and abutment, every syllable and turn of diction earns its place in the cadence of the whole. These poems arrive like a life line."
—Linda Gregerson