Where She Always Was (May Swenson Poetry Award Series) - Hardcover

Lindsay, Frannie

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9780874215816: Where She Always Was (May Swenson Poetry Award Series)

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ISBN 10: 0874215811 ISBN 13: 9780874215816

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2004

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In his foreword, J.D. McClatchy speaks of the musical qualities of Lindsay's work: "It is impossible, reading her poems, not to hear a musical hand at work. This is not just a matter of delicacy or virtuosity. It is also a matter of knowing how to phrase a line... Lindsay moves from detail to trope with utter poise, with an intuitive sense of what to sustain or emphasize. Her language is crisp. I can pick a stanza at random... and praise its plosive energy, its modulated vowels, its variety and elan... "Where She Always Was "allows us . . . the rare gratification of watching a poet--wonderfully accomplished, quietly persuasive--look back on a lifetime's worth of emotions and calculate their bearing on the present. In her craft is the truth."

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Frannie Lindsay, of Belmont, Massachusetts, won the 2009 Word Works Washington Prize for her full-length poetry manuscript, MAYWEED. Lindsay's two previous books are also prize winners: Lamb won the 2006 Perugia Press Intro Award and was runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Where She Always Was Utah State (University Press) was selected for the 2004 May Swenson Award. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Field, The Yale Review, and many others. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio's Writer's Almanac. She earned her MFA at the University of Iowa and is also a classical pianist. Lindsay has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as residencies from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony.

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