Shadow-Bird

by Annie Finch

In part with the third dusie kollektiv.

The complete issue will be available as well at dusie.org

the 49 contributors

Jared Hayes, Cara Benson, Amy King, Emma Phillipps, Arielle Guy, Jane Sprague, Ana Bozicevic, Anna Moschovakis, Kaia Sand, Anna Fulford, Samar Abulhassan, Mackenzie Carignan, Zoe Skoulding, Catherine Meng, Ann Bogle, Susana Gardner, Bonnie Jean Michalski, Michelle Noteboom, Stephanie Young, Dawn Pendergast, Marthe Reed, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Maureen Thorson, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Bronwen Tate, Elizabeth Bryant, Jill Stengel, Jessica Bozek, Julia Drescher, Derek Beaulieu, James Cummins, Amanda Deutch, Nicole Mauro, Catherine Wagner, Mairéad Byrne, Juliana Leslie, Juliet Cook, Jennifer Karmin, Jenn Hofer, Kathrin Schaeppi, Carrie Hunter, Michelle Detorie, Sarah Ann Cox, Mark Lamoureux, Annie Finch, Dana Teen Lomax, Arielle Greenberg, Paul Klinger, Sawako Nakayasu and E. Tracy Grinnell.

Genres: Poetry

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About the author

Annie Finch is the author of six books of poetry, including Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, Calendars and Eve (both finalists for the National Poetry Series), and the verse play Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (Sarasvati Award, 2012). Her poems have appeared onstage at Carnegie Hall and in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Her other works include poetry translation, poetics, poetry anthologies, and a poetry textbook. She is also the editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Annie Finch holds a Ph.D from Stanford, served for a decade as Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and has lectured on poetry at Berkeley, Toronto, Harvard, and Oxford. In 2010 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her lifetime contribution to the art and craft of Versification. Finch has collaborated on poetic ritual theater productions with artists in theater, dance, and music and has performed as Poetry Witch on three continents. She teaches poetry and magic at PoetryWitchCommunity.org. 

“My poems harness the magically diverse and deeply rooted craft of poetic rhythms and forms. Like spells, they enjoy being spoken aloud three times." —Annie Finch

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Annie connects with readers and facilitates seasonal rituals and classes in poetry and meter in her online community,
PoetryWitchCommunity.org, open to all who identify as women or gender-nonconforming.

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Blessings to all my beautiful readers!

Reviews

[Fluffy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oddly enough with this books 49 contributers, there are only 9 poems in the book. I found none of the poems to be particularly gripping, but I did like most of them none the less. I think that this was a rather good book and it only takes about fifteen minutes (or less) to read.

One of my favorite quotes from this book was:

Shallow sky
unclench my fist, and sun lie on my eye
across my nose, and tell me how to die.

The poems in order were:

She That
Dusk
Shallow Sky
The Ages’ Years: A Dialogue
Harvest Seam
An Imaginary Companion
A Wreath of Time: For Anne Bradstreet
Night Rain
Such Husks

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