One Blackbird at a Time: Poems - Barker, Wendy
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Poetry. Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Alice Friman. Barker's poems capture what life is like on the other side of the English teacher's desk, how she reacts to her students' lives and their genuine if not always reverential responses to the literature she aspires to teach. Barker's poems are funny, frightening, moving, and playful (as shown by the title's reference to Wallace Stevens' famous poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." "It would be easy to say this is a book about teaching--it is!--but it's also a book about how our experience of reading humanizes…mehr

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Poetry. Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Alice Friman. Barker's poems capture what life is like on the other side of the English teacher's desk, how she reacts to her students' lives and their genuine if not always reverential responses to the literature she aspires to teach. Barker's poems are funny, frightening, moving, and playful (as shown by the title's reference to Wallace Stevens' famous poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." "It would be easy to say this is a book about teaching--it is!--but it's also a book about how our experience of reading humanizes us and shapes our experience of the world and other people."--Kevin Prufer "In this classroom, no one is exempt. Not the students, not the reader, and--bless her--not the teacher."--Alice Friman
Autorenporträt
Wendy Barker began her teaching career in the public school system. She is currently Poet-in-Residence and the Pearl LeWinn Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she has taught since 1982. Author of five previous poetry collections, her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Wendy has one son and is married to the critic and biographer Steven G. Kellman.