If poetry is not your thing, Jane Springer will change your mind. Dear Blackbird, is a must-read! It also won the Agha Shalid Ali Prize in Poetry.
Here's what one reader had to say:
"Most new poetry I read
nowadays seems decorous in its
austerities or its
embellishments:
willed, over-plotted, dry. Not Jane Springer’s. Her work
leaps to its tasks with a heady extravagance. Dear Blackbird,
is her letter to the world, as eerie as Dickinson’s. Its
pages don’t depend on a sequence of neat stanzas but
are a surge of incantatory phrases and feelings. The skin
of each poem quivers with the mind’s contradictions, the
heart’s panic. It is risky, not merely reckless; rapturous,
not merely rapacious. Memories spill over fantasies,
Southern lore collides with hipster know-how. This book
is the most exciting debut in years, and when we remember
that “début” originally meant to score first in a new game,
that is just what Springer has done: taken on a new set
of terms and struck first, struck gold.” J. D. McClatchy
Also see: http://www.janespringer.blogspot.com
You can order Dear Blackbird, here:
Http://www.amazon.com
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