THE SANGUINE BREAST OF MARGARET, by Bobbie Louise Hawkins (SIGNED)

North and South, 1992, First edition, 142 pp., 5 12" X 8 1/4", Softcover

Very good +(SIGNED by Hawkins)

While her husband teaches the coffee farmers children and tries to write his book, Margaret manages their lives and their family amid the restless wildlife, battling bus drivers and hapless gunmen, in a country where the postman is a government spy and entire wars are conducted over the weekend This novel is based on the time when Bobbie Louise Hawkins (1930-2018) and Robert Creeley (1926-2005) lived in Guatemala with their children. In the Journal of Black Mountain Studies v12 (2021) Alvis Dunn writes While the Faas biography is the most official account of this period in Creeley s life there remains another quite illuminating telling of that tale in Bobbie Louise Hawkins novel, The Sanguine Breast of Margaret. Hawkins wrote most of the book in the 1980s, after Creeley and she had been apart for some five years, and it was published in 1992