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Springer, Jane, 1969-

Dear Blackbird / Jane Springer.

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2007.

viii, 71 pages ; 22 cm.

Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry.

American poetry.

Dear blackbird, -- Nostalgia -- For the Appaloosa who never took sugar -- Broodmare -- Whisper -- Aubade for Sebastian & Marnie -- Why bother resurrecting the dead -- Lamentation -- In the afterlife of clothes -- Quilts in a pattern of flower gardens -- If by chance you meet three small town southern girls -- Words -- Dear blackbird, -- Sestina for being born into a fairytale ending -- FOr the love of turkey vulture #2 -- Island of forgetting is uncharted -- Boxes -- Very best woman in all the world -- Sleeping with the excavator -- This maker's apology for the Tinman -- Addict's guide to pregnancy -- Borrowed wife -- Dear blackbird.

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