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• W2517207690 abstract "Looking for Effie Leatha Kendrick (bio) Perhaps the aim on which we placed our mindIs high, and its attainment slow to find;Or if we reach the mark that we have set, We still would seek another, farther yet. Thus all our youth, our strength, our time go pastTill death upon the threshold stands at last, And back unto our Maker we must giveThe life we spent preparing well to live. —Effie Waller Smith, “Preparation” This is a story of an unlikely poetic friendship and its evolution. It’s a meditation on the silences of women who write. And it’s a mystery—a story of a writer whose works had been almost completely lost to us prior to the 1980s and of the authorship of poems and [End Page 90] stories which until quite recently has been hard to confirm. The friendship story begins in Lexington, Kentucky on January 28, 2015, at the induction ceremony for the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. That night Wendell Berry would become the first living writer to receive this honor. Berry was the main reason for the crowd that overflowed the large rooms of the hundred-year-old Carnegie library that evening. I was a writer in a funk as I took my assigned seat in the lovely, high-ceilinged room, January dark pressing against the wavy glass of the huge old windows. Though Berry had been an important teacher and friend during my graduate school years at the University of Kentucky and I count myself among the many whom he has inspired to write and teach, I almost hadn’t come to the ceremony at all. Part of me wanted to be there to see him receive this honor while the rest of me was guiltily aware of my long silences as a writer, my own small output of books, and all of the unfinished work I had just spent the last six months moving from two separate home offices into a new space. I could not admit how much I feared that I would never finish another piece of writing. Exhausted from moving, I wondered if my writing was worth the effort. I made my way between the tight rows of seats and settled in among the other guests, many of them writers I had come to know over the years. Besides Wendell Berry, the inductees for 2015 included Guy Davenport, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jim Wayne Miller, and Hunter S. Thompson—all familiar names—and one writer whose name I did not recognize: Effie Waller Smith. A sweet, youthful face appeared in the portrait of Effie that was unveiled as part of the ceremony. Handsome and serious-looking, “Miss Effie” (as I soon was calling her) exuded a calm sense of self. The dark face and eyes vibrant above her high-collared white dress seemed to contain a suppressed energy. [End Page 91] Effie Waller Smith was in heady company that night. Looking at her portrait and hearing her poem, “Preparation,” I was drawn to her, curious about how it was that I had not known her or her work until now. That evening I learned that nearly all Effie’s published writing had appeared during a brief, intense period from 1904 to 1909. A few poems and some short stories appeared after this, the last one in 1917. Then Effie, the writer, disappeared. Effie, the woman, however, did not die until 1960. That fact stopped me. I could not follow what the speaker went on to say. I was stuck in the long wordless blank of years after she’d published those few books. Effie’s silence went to the center of my years-long struggle as a writer and woman. Disoriented and silenced for weeks by the upheaval of my recent move, I learned that evening that Effie’s silence coincided with her moving away from her beloved hills. Fearing my own silence, I was determined to save her from hers, or at least to prove that she had not really been silenced by circumstance but had only given up on publication as Emily Dickinson had (as many of my woman writer friends—fine writers—have done..." @default.
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