Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
English Journal
Volume
83
Issue
16/2
Publication Date
1994
First Page
65
Last Page
71
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.
Recommended Citation
Kinkead, J. A. "The Making of a Literary Map." English Journal 83.8 (1994): 65-71.
