The poems in Terry Blackhawk's first collection of poetry enable the reader to enter a realm that is prelinguistic, where self dissolves and sight and sound, nature and identity, intermingle. The paradox inherent in these poems is that the poet's precise use of language, of imagery, of metaphor expresses a physical, sensual celebration of life and loss. Blackhawk frequently makes use of myth to show how the animal within us moves in and with the natural world.
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"Poem after poem in her aptly titled Body & Field, Terry Blackhawk authenticates her immediate and richly imagined world with sensuous language and an intelligence that probes as often as it discerns. These are poems of a large spirit. I love the sensibility behind them, the eros in them, and the precision of their execution." -- Stephen Dunn
Body & Field is radiant, the poems filled with breathtaking pirouettes of language. The elegance of Blackhawk's poetry transforms every page into an echo of the world and the soul searching for its place in it. These are poems of resilience and tenderness, bird song and silence. Only a remarkable heart could have created them. -- Linda Nemec Foster
Reading Terry Blackhawk, I am reminded of Alicia Ostriker's groundedness, of her mourning and celebration of the ordinary life, especially her love for family and friends, but where Ms. Ostriker uses bold strokes, Ms. Blackhawk's work, though just as vivid, is contained, quieter, like the jewel-like pattern of the finest needlepoint. Mostly I think of courage, of connection to man, woman, child, animal, to all the things of the earth. I remember an epitaph written on a gravestone in an old cemetery, that it takes great courage to love that which dies so soon. Here is that courage and endurance. And her impeccable resolution with words. -- Toi Derricotte
Terry Blackhawk's exquisite first book of poems is one of the reasons why poetry remains an important literary force in a world where so much language is reduced to sound bites, voice overs and the collapsed linguistic short-hand of ad copy. . . . It is her astonishing diversity of subject and brilliance of metaphor that sets this first book of poems apart. -- Anne-Marie Oomen Foreword
Body & Field is radiant, the poems filled with breathtaking pirouettes of language. The elegance of Blackhawk's poetry transforms every page into an echo of the world and the soul searching for its place in it. These are poems of resilience and tenderness, bird song and silence. Only a remarkable heart could have created them. -- Linda Nemec Foster
Reading Terry Blackhawk, I am reminded of Alicia Ostriker's groundedness, of her mourning and celebration of the ordinary life, especially her love for family and friends, but where Ms. Ostriker uses bold strokes, Ms. Blackhawk's work, though just as vivid, is contained, quieter, like the jewel-like pattern of the finest needlepoint. Mostly I think of courage, of connection to man, woman, child, animal, to all the things of the earth. I remember an epitaph written on a gravestone in an old cemetery, that it takes great courage to love that which dies so soon. Here is that courage and endurance. And her impeccable resolution with words. -- Toi Derricotte
Terry Blackhawk's exquisite first book of poems is one of the reasons why poetry remains an important literary force in a world where so much language is reduced to sound bites, voice overs and the collapsed linguistic short-hand of ad copy. . . . It is her astonishing diversity of subject and brilliance of metaphor that sets this first book of poems apart. -- Anne-Marie Oomen Foreword
About the Author
Terry Blackhawk earned a B.A. from Antioch College and taught English and creative writing in Detroit public schools for many years. In 1995, she founded InsideOut, a literary arts project for Detroit students. She is the author of two full-length collections of poems-- Body & Field (1999); Escape Artist (2003), winner of the 2002 John Ciardi Poetry Prize; and a chapbook, Trio: Voices from the Myths (1998). Her poems have appeared or will be published soon in numerous journals. Among her awards for poetry are the 1990 Foley Poetry Award; a Distinguished Merit Award from Poetry Atlanta; the John Ciardi Prize; finalist in the 1997 and 1999 Marlboro Review Poetry Prizes; and nominations for the Pushcart XXV and Pushcart XXVI Prizes. In 1992-93, she received an NEH Teacher- Scholar Sabbatical Award to study Emily Dickinson and is included in An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia (1998). In September, 2000, she was featured as a Poet Among Us at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in Waterloo, New Jersey. She has also assisted in judging the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award for the last several years. Terry Blackhawk lives in Detroit, where she is poet-in-residence and director of InsideOut.
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