Carbondale: Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, (2006). First edition - The author's second volume of poetry, the Editor's Choice winner from the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, written in the voices of women ranging from Mary Rockwell to Mary Todd Lincoln to Monica Lewinsky. "Each poem situates its speaker in a particular historical moment: Lizzie Borden addresses the male jury at her murder trial; Mary Rockwell contemplates her son's fencing injury; Camille Claudel speaks from her studio and from the mental asylum where she was a patient. Whether the speakers in these poems are angry, grieving, desperate, or resigned, they all are armed with eloquence and insight into the circumstances that have shaped their lives, including societal expectations of feminine behavior. . . the women in her poems speak with irony and humor as well as with anger or resentment. They also are well aware of their own complicity and guilt; while several of Baggott's subjects have entered the historical record as victims, the women in these poems do not see themselves as such. In 'Dorothy Day's Daughter, Pregnant with Her Ninth Child, Begs Her Mother for Charity: A Bedtime Prayer.' By countering Day's career as a charity worker with the suffering of her daughter's family, Baggott's poem revises the historical record to allow for a more complicated portrait of Day, one that is less flattering but more accurate. . . a gorgeous collection of poems that succeeds in clarifying and expanding the historical record." (Carrie Shipers) 71 pp. ISBN: 978-0809327256.