Queen of the Platform, by Laura Madeline Wiseman
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Queen of the Platform, by Laura Madeline Wiseman
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Queen of the Platform: These poems are based on the life of Laura Wiseman's great-great-great-grandmother, the nineteenth century lecturer, suffragist, and poet, Matilda Fletcher Wiseman (1842-1909) and the men in her life: her brother, George W. Felts (1843-1921), a civil war solider who was later charged with murder, her first husband, John A. Fletcher (1837-1875), a school teacher and a lawyer, and her second husband, William Albert Wiseman (1850-1911), a minister who became her agent. The fifth of fourteen children from abolitionist parents, who had fled the South, Matilda was born in Winnebago County, Illinois, and raised on a farm in Durand. Like her seven brothers who served in the Civil War, Matilda chose the public sphere. After the death of her only child, Matilda joined the lecture circuit. She spoke to support herself and her first husband, until his death. He died of tuberculosis, a disease he contracted during his service to the Union. Eleven years later, she remarried a Methodist minister, my great-great-great-grandfather. On the stage she spoke among other lecturers of her time, such as Susan B. Anthony.
Queen of the Platform, by Laura Madeline Wiseman- Amazon Sales Rank: #6797855 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .31" w x 5.98" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 84 pages
Review "With her graceful rhythmic flare, and real and imagined homey narrative, she presents upended views of the meaning of equality via the men around her suffragist ancestor in the time before women could vote...With Queen of the Platform, Wiseman suggests that there is a great man behind--and moreover, beside--each great woman...Wiseman challenges perceptions of feminism and justice, with her poignant and heartfelt writing via the perspective of the inspiring Matilda and the men around her..." Weave Magazine"Imagine having a great-great-great-grandmother who fought for 'votes for women' alongside Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Poet, Laura Madeline Wiseman's great-great-great-grandmother, Matilda Fletcher Wiseman did just that. Collected letters and newspaper clippings inspired a book of poetry that Ms. Wiseman calls, Queen of the Platform." - Broad Blogs"What makes Queen of the Platform, Laura Madeline Wiseman's eleventh collection of poetry so different from these other books is that the protagonist of this historical research already had a voice. A loud and influential voice. This book is less the powerful contemporary writer reaching into history to unearth something lost, and more the writer allowing herself to be lost in the rich and varied experiences of a powerful woman who has much to teach a contemporary readership about the nuances of power, gender, and the importance of language." - The Volta"Wiseman also uses telegrams, letters, journals and Fletcher's books, combined with her poetic imagination, to evoke a linear timeline in 19th century America, a time when girls weren't educated and to create a personality vivid on the page." - Up the Staircase
From the Back Cover In a time when the struggles and hard-won achievements of our foremothers are in danger of being rolled back or forgotten, Laura Madeline Wiseman turns our attention to a literary and familial ancestor who, after her only child's death, waved "Goodbye/to motherhood, to one kind of life" and "bowed in welcome to another." Channeling this exuberant spirit in a multiplicity of forms that range from epistle to ghazal to collage, Wiseman blends archival research and imagination, vividly capturing intimate exchanges that resonate historically, as in her sure-footed search for an ancestor who teaches her to "make space for our songs." Here we meet luminaries Susan B. Anthony, Walt Whitman, and Victoria Woodhull (our first female presidential candidate) through the sharp eyes of Matilda Fletcher, lecturer and suffragist who "wrote bills/passed into law" and cannily "patented a traveling trunk for women." Queen of the Platform is a timely and terrific read.- Jane Satterfield, author of Her FamiliarsLaura Madeline Wiseman's newest collection Queen of the Platform tours the life of the suffrage speaker and poet Matilda Fletcher through her travels in the vibrant, whiskey-fueled, Midwest lecture circuit. She is a woman with the "heart of a man," and this collection brilliantly engages with this idea through exploring her interactions with the men in her life. A collection of experimental forms--a telegraph poem, a poem with an algebraic equation as its refrain, and erasures of historical documents--intermingling with traditional forms (such as a fairy tale ghazal), these poems spin history with an imagination attune to the intrigue behind fact. Queen of the Platform will pull you into the political landscape of the turn of the twentieth century as though history tapped you on the shoulder with its glove.- Tyler Mills, author of Tongue LyreLaura Madeline Wiseman's Queen of the Platform is not only full of the energy of immediacy, but also deep meditation on the material traces of her ancestry. This collection of poetry inhabits the body of Matilda Fletcher, a suffragist of diverse talents who sometimes shares the stage with Susan B. Anthony. Past and present dissolve in Fletcher's day to day discourse with those men she most loved and lost--one of her brothers who fights the Civil War only to be unjustly imprisoned for murder, and her two husbands. Sometimes exacting, sometimes provocative, but always bold--Wiseman's poetry sharply observes the fabric of her characters' lives.- Margo Taft Stever, author of Frozen Spring
About the Author Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including the full-length books Queen of the Platform (Anaphora Literary Press, 2013) and Sprung (San Francisco Bay Press, 2012) and the chapbooks Men and Their Whims (Writing Knights Press, 2013), First Wife (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013), and Stranger Still (Finishing Line Press, 2013). She is the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013).
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Stand Beside Your Woman (or Man) By Sally Deskins Again, our perspectives of feminism and justice, in history and today, are examined and brought back to earth with Wiseman’s poignant and heartfelt writing in QUEEN OF THE PLATFORM through the narrative of the inspiring Matilda Fletcher and the men around her. These lost stories of strength and endurance are now brought to life, as it echoes through personal accounts of Wiseman herself; “I write to you” (“Speaking To My Dead: Matilda Fletcher Wiseman,” (59)). It is a personable, refreshing work exemplifying the true meaning of equality for men and women alike.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. explores the challenges suffragists faced to make a living while speaking By Frida Laura Madeline Wiseman's second-full length book Queen of the Platform is an extensive examination of the life of the 19th century lecturer Matilda Fletcher. The majority of the poems are written in Fletcher’s voice and focus on the challenges Fletcher faced as a woman trying to earn a living as a lecturer before women had the right to vote or to keep the wages they earned. She pulls from Fletcher’s books, letters to the editor, poems, and the multi-vocal narrative from historical newspapers to produce a travel narrative that spans time and place. Invention also informs this book, both Wiseman's imagination and Fletcher's actual patented invention for women's traveling trunks, making for a rich and educational read the lives of women during the suffrage movement.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Writing Women Back Into History By adam Queen of the Platform is a wonderful book that writes an important woman suffragist back into history by following her experiences on the road lecturing while supporting her dying husband. The book paints a vivid picture of what is was like for Matilda Fletcher during her travels in the late 19th century.
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