Terry M. Blackhawk
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The Light Between, Wayne State University Press, forthcoming Feb. 2012
The Dropped Hand, Marick Press, 2007
Escape Artist, BKMK Press, 2003
Body & Field, Michigan State University Press, 1999
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The Dropped Hand
In The Dropped Hand, Terry Blackhawk masterfully weaves threads of loss and grief into a fine tapestry that is both personal and universal.This is, I think, Dr. Blackhawk’s finest and most moving collection. —Naomi Long Madgett
I love the poetry of Terry Blackhawk, above all else, for its heart, always searching for “something bursting with spring and belief.” Through the poems in The Dropped Hand she teaches us both how to hold on and how to let go of those we love. These compassionate poems reach out through the complex world to find the connections that sustain us. She celebrates our exposed places, the places where we are most vulnerable and most human. We so often cover up those places — it takes a magician like Terry Blackhawk to reveal to us what was there all along. —Jim Daniels
Escape Artist
Winner - 2002 the John Ciardi Prize for 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." —Molly Peacock, 2002 Judge, the John Ciardi prize
“A mortal pressure, a dream of escape--Terry Blackhawk is writing for her life in her fine new book of departures and returns, flights and transformations”. —Edward Hirsch
Body & Field "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 |
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