As always, the d Jane Springer has taken her game to a higher level in her second book of poetry, MURDER Ballad. The South still serves as her favored setting, but the emotional histories of love, desire, regret, and hope in the landscape of the heart come to the foreground of action in this volume. While her first work, Dear Blackbird, introduced us to the magical southern locales that were the fertile ground of her poems, MURDER Ballad begins to delve into secrets that lie deeper in the heart. Jane Springer has taken her game to a higher level in her second book of poetry, MURDER Ballad. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from such places as Fugue, Oxford American, and The Southern Review. She teaches poetry at Hamilton College in upstate New York, where she lives with her husband, son, and two dogs. Her other awards include an AWP Intro Prize, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, an NEA fellowship, and a Whiting Writers Award. Jane Springer's first book Dear Blackbird (University of Utah Press, 2007) won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. Lonely as a single barge weeping its rust in the water-you see them-on aīridge above you, hair slick as frogskin& glittering from skinny dipping-Īs in bucknaked & necking-& suddenly the moon is an empty jar of mayo. Then when you're nightfishing the Mississippi & catching a bucket of nothing, Her loose definitions of Southern-isms are the jumping-off place for the masterful poet as she leaps, narrates, and redefines the American South. Her loose definitions of Southern-isms are the jumping-off place for the masterful poet as she leaps, narrates, and redef On one hand Murder Ballad is a fierce critique of Jane Springer's Southern inheritance, on the other these poems quickly reveal the enigmatic beauty and sharply ironic humor contained in the still-relevant colloquialisms that often shape her characters. On one hand Murder Ballad is a fierce critique of Jane Springer's Southern inheritance, on the other these poems quickly reveal the enigmatic beauty and sharply ironic humor contained in the still-relevant colloquialisms that often shape her characters.
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