Lillian Morrison
(b. 1917)

Lilian Morrison spent nearly 40 years working in the New York Library. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Morrison has written a number of poetry books, including The Sidewalk Racer and Other Poems of Sports and Motion and The Break Dance Kids. Morrison has said, "I love rhythms, the body movement implicit in poetry, explicit in sports…I am drawn to athletes, dancers, drummers, jazz musicians, who transcend misery and frustration and symbolize for us something joyous, ordered, and possible in life." In addition to writing poetry, she collects playground chants, autograph album inscriptions, and riddles from around the world, and publishes her findings.

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