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In the Silence of the Migrated Birds (Parallel Press Chapbook Series)

Austin Smith

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Description:Austin Smith was born in 1982 and grew up on a family dairy farm north of Freeport, Illinois. He still considers the Midwest his home, despite travels and sojourns in Japan, Arizona, India, Nepal, Alaska, and, most recently, California. His chapbook of haiku was published by Longhouse Press of Vermont; he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; and he was awarded a $7,000 Artist's Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council.He prays for a life spent growing vegetables and poems in an un-glaciated hollow in the Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin.Excerpt:Sleeping in My Boyhood Bedroom AgainI wake to the songs of mourning doves,having returned from far-off placesto sleep beneath the scaffolding of old dreams.I know this room the waya river knows its bed:every crack of plasterthrough three skins of paint,every fissure veining the ceilingwhere the old house has buckledbearing the weight of five lives of sleep.On the doorframe of the closetour father measured our growth,penciling a line above our heads,recording the year and the weatheras if recording water levels.I am the furthest floodof the river of my life,the high-water mark.I stand in that closet againand feel infinite childrennested within me.I have gone milesand miles.Now, when I wake, I must lie stillto allow the light to recognizethis shape I have taken.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In the Silence of the Migrated Birds (Parallel Press Chapbook Series). To get started finding In the Silence of the Migrated Birds (Parallel Press Chapbook Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Parallel Press

Release: 2008

ISBN: 1893311988

Description: Austin Smith was born in 1982 and grew up on a family dairy farm north of Freeport, Illinois. He still considers the Midwest his home, despite travels and sojourns in Japan, Arizona, India, Nepal, Alaska, and, most recently, California. His chapbook of haiku was published by Longhouse Press of Vermont; he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; and he was awarded a $7,000 Artist's Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council.He prays for a life spent growing vegetables and poems in an un-glaciated hollow in the Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin.Excerpt:Sleeping in My Boyhood Bedroom AgainI wake to the songs of mourning doves,having returned from far-off placesto sleep beneath the scaffolding of old dreams.I know this room the waya river knows its bed:every crack of plasterthrough three skins of paint,every fissure veining the ceilingwhere the old house has buckledbearing the weight of five lives of sleep.On the doorframe of the closetour father measured our growth,penciling a line above our heads,recording the year and the weatheras if recording water levels.I am the furthest floodof the river of my life,the high-water mark.I stand in that closet againand feel infinite childrennested within me.I have gone milesand miles.Now, when I wake, I must lie stillto allow the light to recognizethis shape I have taken.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In the Silence of the Migrated Birds (Parallel Press Chapbook Series). To get started finding In the Silence of the Migrated Birds (Parallel Press Chapbook Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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