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Budenz at Bellagio, Italy, April 1996
 

About Julia Budenz

Julia Budenz was born in New York City and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since about 1969 she has been writing a long poem, “The Gardens of Flora Baum,” which comprises

Published as separate volumes are part of Book Two, under the title From the Gardens of Flora Baum (Wesleyan University Press, 1984), and part of Book Three, under the title Carmina Carmentis (Pivot Press, 2006 [copyright 2005]). Numerous other sections, some short and some very long, have appeared in American and European periodicals, both in print and on line (1971-2009).

              At present “The Gardens of Flora Baum” is about 2000 pages in length, as all of Books One and Two, most of the very long Book Three, and parts of Books Four and Five have been completed. Although Books Three, Four, and Five are being written simultaneously, the chief work of these years is the first section, “The Margaret-Ghost,” of the third part, “Knowledge,” of the fifth book, “By the Tree of Knowledge.”



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