Escape Artist [Paperback]

Terry Blackhawk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 26, 2003

Poetry. "Terry Blackhawk's poems, crisp as the first apples of autumn, are tart, knowing, and full of the growth of summer. Poems like these can sustain you. You can read and re-read them, marveling at their construction and arrested by insights you missed the first time which then sneak up on you. Blackhawk's poems make you know, with a touch so light you hardly realize you are being tapped on the shoulder, that you are in the presence of the best poetry: multi-leveled, passionate, varied, thoughtful, intense, and beautiful. ESCAPE ARTIST always conveys the sense that limits and boundaries free us as they define us. It is a harvest of a book, mature work, and its voice carries the zesty suggestion of more poems to come" --Molly Peacock, 2002 Judge, John Ciardi Prize.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Blackhawk, winner of the John Ciardi Prize, is on the lookout for moments in which the dusty scrim of everyday perceptions is swept aside just as someone out walking early on a summer morning will tear through a spider's web, or as reflections in standing water disclose the mirroring underworld, or the way the suddenly met stare of a bird holds you rapt. Language itself is as alive to Blackhawk as a field of high grass in the wind, and, reverent and playful, she writes appreciatively and knowledgeably not only of nature but also of art, including the "polymorphic" glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly and the cosmic topsy-turviness of Chagall. Without a shred of self-aggrandizement, Blackhawk fully occupies every scene, whether it's a room in which a loved one has died, an insect-thrumming forest, a dream, a rookery, a museum, or a poem by Emily Dickinson, and reports lucidly on the altered state each immersion sets in motion. Welcoming and transporting, Blackhawk's lustrous lyrics carry the grateful reader into hidden dimensions. Donna Seaman
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About the Author

Terry was born on February 5, 1945, in Glendale, California, to Ben A. & Marie W. Bohnhorst. She graduated from Oakland University in 1993. She taught at the Detroit Public Schools from 1968 - 1996. She founded InsideOut Literary Arts Project in 1995. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: BkMk Press (August 26, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886157405
• ISBN-13: 978-1886157408
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,839,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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