Dear Blackbird
by Springer, JaneFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-26
Publisher(s): Univ of Utah Pr
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Summary
The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and a former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. Dear Blackbird, is the 2006 prize-winning volume selected by this year's judge, J. D. McClatchy, editor of The Yale Review.
Author Biography
Jane Springer teaches English in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Table of Contents
| Dear Blackbird | p. 3 |
| Nostalgia | p. 7 |
| For the Appaloosa Who Never Took Sugar | p. 9 |
| Broodmare | p. 10 |
| Whisper | p. 12 |
| An Aubade for Sebastian & Marnie | p. 14 |
| Why Bother Resurrecting the Dead | p. 19 |
| Lamentations | p. 20 |
| In the Afterlife of Clothes | p. 26 |
| Quilts in a Pattern of Flower Gardens | p. 28 |
| If by Chance You Meet Three Small Town Southern Girls | p. 30 |
| Words | p. 35 |
| Dear Blackbird | p. 43 |
| Sestina for Being Born Into a Fairytale Ending | p. 45 |
| For the Love of Turkey Vulture #2 | p. 47 |
| The Island of Forgetting is Uncharted | p. 49 |
| Boxes | p. 51 |
| The Very Best Woman in All the World | p. 55 |
| Sleeping with the Excavator | p. 58 |
| This Maker's Apology for the Tinman | p. 60 |
| An Addict's Guide to Pregnancy | p. 62 |
| The Borrowed Wife | p. 65 |
| Dear Blackbird | p. 69 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 71 |
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