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One Blackbird at a Time

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One Blackbird at a Time

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 teachingâ€”it is!â€”but it's also a book about how our experience of reading humanizes us and shapes our experience of the world and other people."â€”Kevin Prufer

"In this classroom, no one is exempt. Not the students, not the reader, andâ€”bless herâ€”not the teacher."â€”Alice Friman
Country USA
Brand BKMK Press
Manufacturer BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781943491032
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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