1. Table of contents, American Studies Journal, issue 55:
http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/
2. My autobiographical text: “Fragments of an Autobiography or Remembering in the House of Time, From London to Wisconsin, 1933-2010:
http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/190.html
3. link to my poem that gives the whole issue its title of “Women’s Voices from The House of Time”:
http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/194.html
Moira Roth was featured in an article titled, “Poor Farm, Ahoy!” by Marilu Knode, a curator of contemporary global art living in St. Louis.
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For Moira Roth July 2010
I couldn’t make it to the Poor Farm
But It I know what it’s like,
I’ve seen it in my dreams, always on a hill
A lawn of weeds in front, a few bent figures
Scattered here and there, postures unforgiving,
Anonymous staffage.
I know what it is like from reading
About the dispossessed in England, the misérables in France,
The Depression in the U.S. of A. I know what it’s like from
Jacob Riis’s clever photos
That dull the glance, reveal the glare
Of poor folk’s pots, the
Messiness of their bedding, I know
from Daumier, Courbet and the London Illustrated News.
I know what the Poor Farm is like and what it’s not
It’s not nice.
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