Until Life Says No to Me: Collected Poems

By Margaret Hitchcock

Margaret Hitchcock, like all good poets, asks you questions you didnt know you wanted to ask: Can flour, or flowers, be a life raft? What does a house cleaner do when she finds love left lying in the house she is working in? Is anything better than butter? What kind of cage do words make? Was Cinderella really happy ever after? What comes first in the morning, the challenge of beauty or something else? Should the Princes of Poppycock be addressed as Her Peachiness?

The reader will find intriguing questions and surprising answers in these collected poems, a feast to be savored slowly, flavored with wit and unassuming wisdom and always with grace and humor.

A woman of many talents, Margaret Hitchcock Young created and ran a health food store on Nantucket Island, a place she made her home and springboard to the world. In her life (1931-2009) she was a mother, a baker, an actor, a traveler, and a food writer. She was also an avid Scrabble player and crossword solver, loved language and the beauty of words. When her worldly work was done, she devoted herself to the call of the poetry she had felt all her life. This book contains all the poems she left.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477267851

Margaret Hitchcock

Margaret Hitchcock, born Margaret H. Young in 1931, started SOMETHNG NATURAL, a food store and sandwich place, when she first arrived on Nantucket Island and she and her former husband ran the business together for 14 years. She joined the Nantucket Theater Workshop soon after moving there and for many years acted, stage managed, did costumes, make-up, in fact anything she could get her hands on. She was mother to 10 children, 5 of whom she carried under her heart, 10 of whom she carried in her heart. She wrote the ISLE COOK column in the NANTUCKET MAP AND LEGEND for seven years. She had been writing poetry forever, but in the last few years of her life she made an attempt to get them published, with some success, mostly in small literary magazines and one in NANTUCKET MAGAZINE. Margaret Hitchcock died at home in her beloved island in 2009.

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